# \#aliens **URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/tag/aliens/12.md [Latest](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/latest.md) · [Categories](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/categories.md) · [Tags](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/tags.md) --- ## [Physics and Beyond—A Conversation with Jack Sarfatti](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/physics-and-beyond-a-conversation-with-jack-sarfatti/3703)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [17 April 2024 17:41 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/physics-and-beyond-a-conversation-with-jack-sarfatti/3703 "2024-04-17T17:41:12Z")
In a wide-ranging two and a half hour conversation with Danny Jones, physicist Jack Sarfatti, (@jacksarfatti here) discusses the nature of consciousness, UFO propulsion, messages from artificial intelligenc… --- ## [Jill Tarter on Searching for Alien Technosignatures](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/jill-tarter-on-searching-for-alien-technosignatures/513)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [15 December 2023 17:37 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/jill-tarter-on-searching-for-alien-technosignatures/513 "2023-12-15T17:37:35Z")
Interestingly, the more than 50 year search for signals from alien civilisations in the radio spectrum would, if conducted by aliens, have failed to detect humans on Earth, as our civilisation does not tran… --- ## [Lee Cronin on Assembly Theory, Origin of Life, Alien Life Artificial Intelligence, and Building a Brain](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/lee-cronin-on-assembly-theory-origin-of-life-alien-life-artificial-intelligence-and-building-a-brain/4094)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [12 December 2023 15:22 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/lee-cronin-on-assembly-theory-origin-of-life-alien-life-artificial-intelligence-and-building-a-brain/4094 "2023-12-12T15:22:40Z")
The Nature paper, published on 2023-10-04, which set off a firestorm of criticism about its view of evolution is “Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution” (full text at link). Here … --- ## [Brad Templeton on Dark Aliens](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/brad-templeton-on-dark-aliens/3481)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [7 August 2023 08:32 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/brad-templeton-on-dark-aliens/3481 "2023-08-07T08:32:57Z")
For more than fifty years, radio astronomers have scanned the sky in a quest to detect signals from alien technological civilisations, an effort called the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). … --- ## [SETI Institute Jumps the Reticulan](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/seti-institute-jumps-the-reticulan/3413)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [7 July 2023 14:22 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/seti-institute-jumps-the-reticulan/3413 "2023-07-07T14:22:19Z")
Meet Adriana Knouf, our newest artist in residence! Adriana engages with topics such as wet media, space art, satellites, radio transmission, non-human encounters, queer and trans futurities, and machine l… --- ## [Seth Shostak—How Much of the Galaxy Has SETI Searched for Aliens?](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/seth-shostak-how-much-of-the-galaxy-has-seti-searched-for-aliens/2845)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [6 March 2023 13:37 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/seth-shostak-how-much-of-the-galaxy-has-seti-searched-for-aliens/2845 "2023-03-06T13:37:58Z")
Seth Shostak is senior astronomer at the SETI Institute. --- ## [Dan Werthimer on SETI, METI, and the Dangers of Broadcasting Our Presence](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/dan-werthimer-on-seti-meti-and-the-dangers-of-broadcasting-our-presence/1801)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [6 August 2022 13:02 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/dan-werthimer-on-seti-meti-and-the-dangers-of-broadcasting-our-presence/1801 "2022-08-06T13:02:35Z")
Dan Werthimer has worked on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) since 1979, largely in association with the University of California Berkeley SETI project. He is a co-founder of SETI@home an… --- ## [Research Programs Arising from 'Oumuamua Considered as an Alien Craft](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/research-programs-arising-from-oumuamua-considered-as-an-alien-craft/457)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [28 November 2021 03:17 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/research-programs-arising-from-oumuamua-considered-as-an-alien-craft/457 "2021-11-28T03:17:55Z")
Marvin Ellis of the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has published a paper on arXiv, “Research Programs Arising from ‘Oumuamua Considered as an Alien Craft” arguing that ‘Oumuamua (1I/2017 U1), the first unamb… --- ## [Game Theory with Aliens on the Largest Scales](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/game-theory-with-aliens-on-the-largest-scales/325)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [9 November 2021 16:55 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/game-theory-with-aliens-on-the-largest-scales/325 "2021-11-09T16:55:02Z")
Resources needed to take over the universe: One largish asteroid or small planet One star Self-replicating robots 40 years of Dyson sphere building, one afternoon of launching, some billion years of wait… --- ## [KIC 8462852 (Boyajian's Star): Possible Periodicity?](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/kic-8462852-boyajians-star-possible-periodicity/235)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [30 October 2021 12:02 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/kic-8462852-boyajians-star-possible-periodicity/235 "2021-10-30T12:02:48Z")
The mystery star KIC 8462852, “Tabby's Star”, which the Kepler spacecraft observed to exhibit stunning (up to 22%) and irregular dimming events, continues to defy explanation. In 2017, Gary Sacco and two c… --- ## [A Zoologist Contemplates Alien Life](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/a-zoologist-contemplates-alien-life/126)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [18 October 2021 19:04 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/a-zoologist-contemplates-alien-life/126 "2021-10-18T19:04:59Z")
Might convergent evolution and the limited number of biomechanical solutions to the needs of life result in alien life being no more weird than what we find on Earth? (Although if you look at some of the c… --- ## [Ten Unsettling Possibilities Regarding Alien Life](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/ten-unsettling-possibilities-regarding-alien-life/63)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [7 October 2021 14:56 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/ten-unsettling-possibilities-regarding-alien-life/63 "2021-10-07T14:56:17Z")
It was interesting to hear the scenario from my science fiction short story “We'll Return, After This Message” figure in one of the segments.