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Final Follow-Up on the Probability of an Alien Invasion

This post is part 3 of my Deconstruction of Stephen Hawking’s comments about contact with alien intelligences being risky.  Part one was a general overview of why alien visitation/invasion is highly...

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Sci-Fi Science and Skepticism Fail on Syfy

A couple of months ago, I was flipping through channels on my POOP TV* and caught a few minutes of one of those really bad, direct to cable movies they run all the time on the Syfy channel.  The movie...

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My Take on the Dawkins Interview at TAM8

This past weekend I has the pleasure of attending The Amazing Meeting 8 in Las Vegas with my friend Polite Scott.  It was, of course, amazing.  The keynote speaker was famed British evolutionary...

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Reply to a Comment on Interstellar Travel

Someone going by the handle of Speising made a comment on my post Follow-Up: Energy Requirements of Interstellar Travel, and the reply I composed grew so large that I decided to make it into a full...

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Astronomer (Probably) Has 99% Chance of Being Wrong

Astronomers have spotted a so-called Goldilocks planet ( Gliese 581g)orbiting another star.  A goldilocks planet is a one that is of the right size to be terrestrial and which lies in the habitable...

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Bill O’Reilly Throws Muslims Under the Bus

I believe Bill O’Reilly believes in what he says.  When he recently said, “Muslims killed us on 9/11“, I believe that he believes that we were attacked by the Muslim religion itself  (ie: we were...

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No Reason to Fear Aliens (Again)

Recently I came across an article on space.com, Study: If We’re Not Alone, We Should Fear the Aliens by Mike Wall, SPACE.com Editor, that I thought was deserving of some Cordial Deconstruction....

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Reply to a Comment on My Schrödinger’s Cat Post

Commenter your wrong left the following comment to my Deconstruction post on Flash Forward’s mishandling of the Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment: “Ok, you seem to have completely missed the point...

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Deconstruction Review of Fringe, Episode 8 Season 5 The Human Kind

A Dreary Blue Episode It’s looking to be incredibly unlikely that there will be ever an episode synopsis over at Polite Dissent.  I think Scott’s fallen far enough behind now that he won’t bother to...

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My Guest Spot On The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe Podcast

Just  a quick note today, I was a Guest Rogue on this week’s episode of the podcast, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe.  SGU Podcast 402 – March 30, 2013 You can listen to the podcast by following...

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