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# 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...
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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.
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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?
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It's not completely impossible that you could have some alien DNA. But the odds are literally astronomical.
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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.
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Ancient astronaut theory is basically creationism for people who don't believe in the supernatural, as Lloyd Pye demonstrates.
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Another entry in the quickly growing HuffPo library of woo shows that all creationism is basically the same in the end.
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Some of this blog's readers would make really scary and really good alien invaders...
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Scientists are curious about some strange atmospheric signatures on Titan that could signal exotic life. But it's not quite a slam dunk for alien hunters.
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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.