{"id":666,"date":"2016-12-16T02:46:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T02:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=666"},"modified":"2024-10-02T03:40:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T03:40:39","slug":"mars-aliens-and-seti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/mars-aliens-and-seti\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars, Aliens, and SETI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>I’d love to be talking about unambiguously artificial signals picked up by the Allen Telescope Array<\/a>, or reports of a ship from beyond the Solar System settling into orbit around our moon.<\/p>\n

But that hasn’t happened, and probably won’t. Not in my lifetime.<\/p>\n

Instead, I’ll talk about why I don’t “believe in” extraterrestrial life; and<\/strong> do not assume that we are alone in the universe. That puts me in the third of folks who aren’t sure, and I’ll get back to that.<\/p>\n

My ‘Friday’ posts are usually about more-or-less-current ‘science news.’ That won’t happen this week. I’ve read a few interesting articles, and will be talking about them \u2014 after the Christmas-New Year’s gymkhana is over.<\/p>\n

This week I’m using material that didn’t quite fit into an earlier post. I’ll also talk about the Great Moon Hoax, Nicola Tesla and Martians, and what I think about life in the universe.<\/p>\n

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  1. Science and Silliness in the 19th Century<\/a>\n