In early, easily-mocked sci fi, a little green man points his raygun at an unsuspecting passerby and barks “Take me to your leader.” Fast forward: If the little green man didn’t have the technology to figure out who the leader was before landing, he certainly wouldn’t have the technology to get here.
Tag: Extraterrestrial intelligences
Rob Sheldon on the current trend to non-theist intelligent design (ID) theory
When some people wrote privately to protest that this ET>Big Bang stuff is all just one space bunny too far down the cosmic path, I (O’Leary for News) pointed out in response that Neil deGrasse Tyson (here), Martin Rees (here), and Elon Musk (here) have also suggested that very thing. Well, now theoretical physicist Rob Sheldon writes to offer some thoughts on the new-found popularity.
Christian Scientific Society webinar May 29: Topic is space aliens
The title is “Is there intelligent life in outer space? What are the stakes?”
We are told: There are 300 million potentially inhabitable worlds in the galaxy
And yet we never hear from anyone living there. Here’s a list, just for fun, of eight possible reasons…