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Recently, I was invited to speak at a symposium organized by the Amsterdam Royal Palace Foundation, who, twice a year, brings in experts to discuss some big topic like the COVID pandemic or the future of work. This summer’s meeting was about the search for extraterrestrial life. While I focused on the search in our own Solar System, Sara Seager of MIT presented her ideas on how to look for life on planets circling other…
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A very intriguing incident took place in the spring of 1970. It was experienced by Peter Jones, a venerable carpenter who had started to appreciate the simpler things in life as he got older. He was native of Bromborough, England, who, at 64, was being pressured by his wife and brother into retiring from his job but Peter genuinely felt he was still eighteen in his mind. He liked to get away from the overcrowded…
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Monsters Out of Ancient Eras: Could Time Travel Explain Sightings of Bizarre Creatures? Source link
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For 52 straight days this winter, Shannon Hovey woke up in the company of five other men in a metal tube, 20 feet long and seven feet in diameter, tucked deep inside a ship in the Gulf of Mexico. He retrieved his breakfast from a hatch (usually eggs), read a briefing for the day, and listened for a disembodied voice to tell him when it was time to put on a rubber suit and get to…
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Astronomer Sebastian Voltmer is perplexed by an unidentified object he saw flying past the Moon. Voltmer was photographing the night sky, and a mysterious object appeared in the lens of his telescope. “I can’t explain it,” he said. “I was filming the moon, and suddenly I saw something fast and bright rushing across the screen.” It was initially thought that it was a satellite or space station, but these options were ruled out because such…