The Indigestible

At last, another post in the UFnO cat­e­gory, a con­tin­u­a­tion of my attempts at explain­ing why I’m athe­is­tic regard­ing the like­li­hood of aliens ever vis­it­ing us, or we them. I use the term athe­is­tic delib­er­ately; I’m inclined to think that belief in extrater­res­trial intel­li­gence vis­it­ing Earth is pre­cisely that — it’s a faith, essen­tially a reli­gion, some­thing that is […]

As both a con­sumer and pro­ducer of SF, I con­fess to being enam­ored of the idea that there is extrater­res­trial life out there. I get a kick out of the idea of Little Green Men in small, disc-​​​​shaped craft flit­ting hap­pily from star to star, and I like the way SF per­mits us to ques­tion our­selves in ways that many […]