Marie-Danielle Smith: In a year that has already seen historic fires, deadly pandemics, economic crisis and locust swarms, let’s not rule anything out
Tag Archives: aliens
Speaking of kids’ shows…
It’s hard not to root a little for a show that is an old-fashioned, high-concept fantasy comedy
Raelians announce support for the CLASSE
Alien-believing sect sees common goals with student protesters
When Mars really attacks
How would Americans handle an alien invasion in this time of partisan rancour?
Five possible Earth-like planets found
Planets may support liquid water, and therefore life
The Commons: What alien hordes may come
Can we really be content to spend only $16-billion on fighter jets?
We’re all that an alien species would want
Who needs the Security Council? There’s a much bigger job for Canada out there.
UFOS and the U.S. Air force
Alien interference
Is there anybody out there? Do we care?
My column for the print mag this week takes a break from Tory-baiting and looks at the biological assumptions that underly the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence. I take issue with Stephen Hawking’s specific worry that aliens we encounter will be too much like us (greedy, rapacious, violent), because I think the real worry is that they’ll be nothing like us at all.
Aliens like us? I don’t think so.
Whether alien culture resembles our own depends on one big question: do they have sex?