GeekSpeak subject for Saturday 29th at noon SLT: Are the aliens coming?

 NASA announced last week that they are creating an official team to investigate UFOs (aka UAPs).  What will they find?  And how much will they tell us?Do aliens exist?  Is the Drake equation correct in predicting 26 advanced species in our galaxy alone? What will happen, to our society, our religion, our science, if we find an alien or they find us? What will happen if tomorrow the James Webb telescope points to a new star and...

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eekSpeak subject for Saturday 4th June at noon SLT: Should we answer the WOW! signal?

 In 1977 a signal from space was detected, a signal that might have come from aliens.  It is now known as the WOW! Signal.  There are rumors that a second WOW! signal was received recently from the same area.  Should we answer it? It might be dangerous to let aliens know we are here.  Perhaps we should hide.  On the other hand, they probably can detect our presence anyway and not answering could be considered rude. ...

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GeekSpeak - UFOs! Are they real?- Join the discussion on May 29th at 12pm SLT

 Last month the Pentagon officially said that UFOs are real. That is, people have seen things that exist and that cannot be explained. Congress has set up a task force to study UFOs and they will bring out a report next month. So this is a good time for us to ask a few questions and suggest some answers. UFOs are now called UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena), and they could be anything or rather anything that can travel at 13000 miles an hour...

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What Could Go Wrong? Let's Visit The Bermuda Triangle - Stacey Cardalines Reporting

 2020 was perhaps a cursed year... so why not start 2021 in the Bermuda Triangle? Where danger rears her ugly head, Stacey Cardalines is sure to tread. My sources informed me of a paranormal hotspot on SL, and I was chartering a boat five minutes later. The Bermuda Triangle is a section of the Atlantic Ocean where a bunch of ships and planes have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The points of the triangle are roughly...

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GeekSpeak – Is it moral to eat Europa’s aliens? Join the discussion Saturday Sept 28th at 12pm SLT

If we find alien life on another planet or moon, what will we owe to it?  Should we feel that we are responsible for its conservation, as we would if it lived on Earth?  Should we leave it alone and not allow anyone to land there?  Should it be the law that colonies are forbidden on inhabited planets? Or should people be free to kill the aliens?  Free to eat them?  Free to take home alien...

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GeekSpeak: Should we actively try to contact aliens? Join the discussion Saturday April 13th at 12pm SLT

Since there is so much space to cover and we don’t know where to look for alien intelligence, it may not be practical to send out signals.  But, what if the ‘zoo hypothesis’ is correct?  What if aliens know that we are here and are keeping us in a zoo?  Maybe because they don’t want to interfere with our evolution. Maybe because they don’t want us to infect the rest of the universe with our evil.  Maybe because they are carrying...

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GeekSpeak: What happens if we discover alien life? Join the discussion Saturday September 22nd at 12pm SLT

What if we discover life on other planets?  On Mars or in the Solar system or maybe light years away.  Maybe alien bacteria or maybe intelligent beings.  How will it affect our understanding of our own place in the universe?Will we want to destroy them?  Or will we want to isolate ourselves from them so that they cannot destroy us?  Will we want to trade with them?  Make peace with them?Will our religions change...

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Join our Monthly meeting of Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) Sunday, September 25th at 10pm PDT/1pm EDT

Meeting will be held at Quat Gallery  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Quat/127/89/54  Topics for discussion:Are we going to Mars because of Star Trek?http://www.space.com/34043-star-trek-nasa-mars-journey-inspiration.htmlWill we find ET? Has ET found us?http://www.space.com/34047-star-trek-nasa-seti-talk-first-contact-aliens.htmlWhat are the odds of an asteroid killing us?http://www.space.com/34070-earth-vulnerable-to-major-asteroid-strike.htmlIf...

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GeekSpeak – the Fermi paradox: where are the aliens?

“Where is everybody?” – Enrico Fermi.The Drake equation suggests that there are many technologically advanced civilisation in our galaxy.  But if they do exist, where are they?  Why have they not come to Earth?  Why do we see no sign of them?  No radio messages, no von Neumann probes, so sign of Dyson spheres.There is no reason to think there is anything unusual about Earth or about our solar system.  Exoplanets...

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SL UFO Threads Are Host To Heated Debate… LillyLacewing Reporting.

Fire in the Sky Are there extraterrestrial reasons behind unidentified flying objects? This question, and the fear of its possible answer, has plagued mankind for decades. Long before we could articulate and gather together (whether in the flesh, or here, in the Virtual world of Second Life,) to discuss it, lights in the sky have been terrifying and fascinating us for all of our recorded history. Many religions, particularly Hinduism in their...

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