Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# science
Would aliens actually want to build a Dyson Sphere? It wouldn't be out of reach for them, but they might get a lot less power out of it, with a lot less utility than it seems at first glance...
# oddities
Despite what you may have heard, Voyager 2 remains very much under human, not alien, control.
# astrobiology
The more spread out an alien species is across the cosmos, the easier it would be to find and contact them. But how widespread could an alien civilization be?
# space
How hard would it be to develop space travel on a small, Earth-sized planet with rings posing a constant navigational hazard?
# astrobiology
When we really think about it, there could be a lot of reasons alien life can't, or doesn't want to, talk to us besides fear, politics, or timelines.
# space
The future is often painted as a utopian landscape of amazing inventions and entertainment. The reality is often a lot messier and a lot of promises never come to pass.
# astrobiology
Ufologists want the EU to create an office of extraterrestrial affairs and diplomacy.
# astrobiology
One example of hard proof is worth a million vague anecdotes and personal accounts of sightings.
# astrobiology
Unfortunately, District 9 seems like a realistic look at how we'd treat an alien species that can't really defend itself from us.
# astrobiology
According to a self-proclaimed expert in diplomatic relations with aliens, NASA is about to start an illegal war with an extraterrestrial outpost on the Moon.