Tag: aliens

  • One summer night in 1955, a Kentucky family found themselves besieged by strange, glowing-eyed creatures that seemed impervious to gunfire. They fled to the police for help—but when they returned home, the creatures came back.

    The Great Kentucky Goblin Encounter
  • If extraterrestrial intelligence exists, what might an encounter with it actually look like? Biology, physics, evolution, and the immense distances between stars place constraints on the possibilities—but they also leave room for forms of life, intelligence, and contact far stranger…

    On The Form of Extraterrestrial Visitation
  • Can we measure the probability that life in the cosmos develops only so far before fizzling out?  Is there a way to quantify the evolutionary potential of biological life and its reach throughout the universe? Theoretical supposition can be fun. …

    Where is Everyone: Can Moore’s Law Solve the Fermi Paradox?