Researchers using China's new Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), the largest single-dish scope in the world, are piecing together a technological strategy to carry out a major and sweeping search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
What if China someday announces that this hunt has been successful? How would such a claim be verified, and what might the consequences be? And could an unofficial international SETI race already be underway?
And here's another article:
Kevin's Weather: IT CAME FROM SPACE! OR DID IT?
A brief fireball blazed over China in October of 2019, and a piece of it may have fallen to the ground.
Astronomer and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe has proposed the theory that such visitors from outer space may carry viruses, implying that Covid-19’s origin might be extraterrestrial.
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That’s according to an article written by Seth Shostak, director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, or SETI.
Opinion | The End of the New World Order - The New York Times
It's a mistake to believe most conspiracy theories, but it's also a mistake to assume that they bear no relation to reality. Some are just insane emanations or deliberate misinformation. But others exaggerate and misread important trends rather than denying them, or offer implausible explanations for mysteries that nonetheless linger unexplained.
Sometimes, though, conspiracy theories outlive the reality that once sustained them, surging in popularity just as the real world is making their anxieties irrelevant. And something like that may be happening right now with conspiratorial thinking about the so-called New World Order. On the one hand, the coronavirus is inspiring a surge of N.W.O. paranoia, a renewed fear of elite cabals that aspire to rule the world.
Daytime Emmys back on TV, but with socially distanced show | WTGS
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What might Edmund Burke have thought about pandemics and other civilizational threats?
It's one of the more famous Burke quotes, but not one I expected to find in the fascinating " The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity " by Oxford philosopher Toby Ord. Having read many books of broadly this sort, most if not all written by thinkers of the left, conservative philosophers are a rare find within them. But Burke's inclusion makes total sense given his emphasis on intergenerational responsibility.
And let me emphasize that latter point, as Ord does in the book. Survival is not enough. A societal collapse that permanently wrecks the potential of our species, a failed world scenario, is no better outcome. Good to avoid those as well.
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Ready, SETI, go: Is there a race to contact E.T.? https://t.co/gZVpCrhpor https://t.co/r8nLANk11l SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Thu May 21 13:19:33 +0000 2020
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