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Alien Peeping Toms

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Space Aliens Grille & Bar

Space Aliens Grille & Bar
Photo by dacotahsgirl

I am 99.9 percent certain that the video of an alien peeking through a window is a fabrication. I am aware of the experts who have examined the video and claim its authenticity, but, to my mind, this is like having experts certify Dittoheads have hearts, no matter how realistic the video, the content remains nonsense.

Why would someone something capable of traversing the vast chasms of space, distances in hundreds of lightyears, need to sneak up and peek through a window??? The aliens have mastered interstellar voyages, but never figured out how to put two convex lenses together to make a telescope? Here on Earth, engineers have developed technology that can see through walls, and yet ET has to stand on its tippy-toes to get a look at a human living room?

What possible scientific data are aliens getting from looking at a human living room anyway? Right now anyone within a 50 lightyear radius of Earth is watching our 1957 I Love Lucy episodes. They can see all the human living rooms they want by tuning into a few of our television broadcasts!

Why doesn’t this ET just plug into our Internet? There is nothing Klaatu is going to see with a real-life look at a human dwelling that they can’t get on YouTube. We should be looking for aliens hanging out in coffee shops, leaching off the free wi-fi, not snooping around our backyards like bug-eyed perverts.

If there are aliens observing us, they are doing so with satellites the size of microchips. They aren’t visiting in person, they are using nanobots, remote exploration, just as we use rovers to explore Mars.

And don’t even get me started on everything that’s wrong with the whole alien abduction for invasive medical experimentation silliness.

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Science Etcetera, Marsday 20080610

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
  • As predicted by climate change scientists, the increase in CO2, a plant fertilizer, has led to an increase in Earth’s biomass in some places over the past two decades.

  • June 2000 Primary Productivity

    June 2000 Primary Productivity

    June 2005 Primary Productivity

    June 2005 Primary Productivity
  • I was glad to see a /.er’s question Are Academic Journals Obsolete? Met with a resounding NO!!!
  • A two-year old mud volcano in Java that has displaced 30k people is the result of gas exploration drilling.
  • The world’s oldest woman, at 115 years of age, donated her body to science, which has found a normal brain, free of Alzheimer’s and Atherosclerosis, which performed better than 60 to 75 year olds when alive.
  • The sun should be producing sunspots leading up to a peak in 2012, but instead is mysteriously quiet.
  • Virgin Galactic is rolling out models of its commercial spaceship the mega-mothership.
  • If all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what IBM’s Petaflop Roadrunner Supercomputer can in one day.
  • Steampunk sine-wave calculator.
  • Putting a GPS inside the new iPhone will be a huge boon to Citizen Science.
  • Cat-sized, mammal-like reptiles called Thrinxadons lived in burrows in Antarctica 400 million years ago, which were flooded, leaving casts of their dens.

  • Thrinaxodon

    Thrinaxodon
  • Gah! The Martian soil is clumpier than expected, making it difficult to get samples into the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer Thingamagig.
  • When we get to the Moon, we’ll be able to build new telescopes out of its dust. Now somebody build a business model off this.
  • It’s not just America: India’s sacred cows are starving to death from eating too many plastic bags, and India’s plastics lobby has prevented the country from doing anything about it.
  • Peter Barnes free Creative Commons licensed e-book Capitalism 3.0 seeks to show us the way to reclaiming the commons.
  • Astronomers have had a eureka moment concerning where to search for radio signals from extraterrestrials, stars along the plane of Earth’s orbit, where alien civilizations are most likely to be aware of us from observing Earth pass in front of the Sun.
  • I’m lookin’ over a 21-Leaf Clover!
  • 15,000 years ago, icebergs left scars in the sea bed off the South Carolina coast.
  • Explosive Chemical Reaction: Potassium metal and Bromine: