Jumping the Timestream: A Note from 07.20.2011

I’m writing today one year into the future because I can’t stand not knowing what’s going to happen in the next few hours. (Strange, I realize, but I can’t just publicly ask my future self in a few hours due to contract obligations relating to the answer… so I have to send this far enough […]

Hawking Space Exploration Paradox: Death or Enslavement

During the last six months, famed theoretical physicist and science oracle Dr. Stephen Hawking has proposed much to garner headlines. (A suggestion that ‘universe creation’ may be a natural process comes to mind.) However, when looking at the implications of his recent propositions, a hidden space exploration paradigm takes form. It would seem that in […]

Differences between SETI, Astrobiology, UFOlogy

Based on some recent feedback, I’m tempted to pose a question to the cyberverse: What differences do you see, if any, between SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), Astrobiology (study of locations and potential biochemistry of extraterrestrial life), and UFOlogy (study of UFOs)? I ask this as a general point of discussion because some have […]

Alien archeology – now a real science?

Well, I’ve done it. Making good on a promise I made to myself while presenting a poster at the Society of American Archaeology conference in 2008, I recently submitted an article to the journal Space Policy outlining a framework for a science that doesn’t quite exist yet: Xenoarchaeology. “Xeno” is Greek/Latin for “foreign” or “stranger.” […]

Give it a rest, people: Voyager 2 spacecraft not hijacked by aliens

NASA is having a hard time talking to the Voyager 2 probe. It started in late April and has only gotten worse, with the latest transmission being quite garbled. Now, I can understand a bit of fun, tounge-in-cheek speculation, but this “Aliens have hijacked Voyager 2!” thing has gotten way out of hand. It’s as though someone […]