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# astrobiology
A new app that's supposed to teach aliens how to communicate with us seems to underestimate just how different aliens and their technology would be...
# astrobiology
It makes sense for an alien species not to care about wiping out a civilization on another planet. Question is whether it would be worth the hassle.
# astrobiology
Ancient astronaut proponents can't seem to distinguish between the terms plausible and likely.
# astrobiology
Communication is difficult. Especially with alien beings that evolved tens of light years away and may have no idea we're even trying to communicate.
# astrobiology
Futurist blogger created an aspirational list of rules by which we should interact with any aliens we might encounter. Emphasis on the aspirational part...
# astrobiology
Astronomer Ragbir Bhathal supposedly claims he received a signal from Gliese 581g, but the story behind the claims doesn't seem to make much sense.
# astrobiology
Retired military officers claim that aliens are visiting Earth to discourage us from using nuclear weapons on each other. But how would aliens know if we have nukes?
# astrobiology
SETI is thinking about how to detect and talk to alien computers instead of just alien beings. And that's a lot harder than it sounds.
# astrobiology
As soothing as it may seem, it's very, very, very unlikely there's a union of various alien species that imposes an interstellar order.
# oddities
Despite what you may have heard, Voyager 2 remains very much under human, not alien, control.