June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... and intelligence elsewhere because they illuminate, hypothesise, and critique future contact between cultures (human and alien). Anthropocentrism - the idea that humans are at the centre, from technology to philosophy - both frustrates and informs...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
...for categorising the level of detection of, or encounter with, an alien civilisation, poses one of the most important questions that will ... react to the first discovery of extraterrestrial life or alien technology? Without doubt, this is one of the ...
06 July 2015
From SETI to black crust on Churyumov-Gerasimenko: looking for alien life
... of the Rosetta probe. This week, scientists said that alien microbial life could be present on the comet, as evidenced... and other such mysterious beings. Claims of contact with alien life are regularly made by unstable individuals (who sometimes ...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
... and listening to them on the radio. He turned off the lights inside Skylab in an attempt to see the ‘space aliens attack’ through the viewport. Skylab space station After staring at the dark sky for a few seconds...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... comes a few years after Scott’s other sci-fi masterpiece, Alien. He develops, in Blade Runner, a similar neo-noir ... of Blade Runner offered us. Compared to its earlier contemporaries Alien and Star Wars, it made more grounded futuristic projections, ...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
...could never really feel at home there after their time on an alien planet. Privately some of them knew in their heart of hearts... the Earth is overwhelming. Each breath a reminder of just how alien is the red planet, and how it never leaves your soul. ...
