The Search for Extraterrestrials: Keeping Hope Alive

alien civilizations, astrobiologists, Avi Loeb, BBC, Carl Sagan, David Kipping, extraterrestrials, Gizmodo, Hayabusa2, Jacob Haqq Misra, John Gertz, Jonathan O’Callaghan, Matt Williams, NASA, OSIRIS-REx, Planetology, Principle of Mediocrity, Ravi Kopparapu, Rolf Dobelli, Science Alert, Science Focus, scientific reasoning, SETI, solar system, Technology, technosignatures, The Privileged Planet
The question looms: How much can science avoid facts while retaining the character of science? Source
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Aliens in the Garbage

A Fortunate Universe, aliens, biology, David Klinghoffer, DNA, employment, extraterrestrial visits, extraterrestrials, Garry Nolan, immunologists, Intelligent Design, Joana Xavier, micromachines, nanomachines, naturalistic explanations, origin of life, Physics, Earth & Space, scientists, Signature in the Cell, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer
Some people — whether they would put it in so many words or not — believe that certain types of answers are simply off-limits in a scientific inquiry. Source
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Unexplained — Maybe Unexplainable — Numbers Control the Universe

Carl Sagan, Contact (novel), Cosmos (magazine), electromagnetism, extraterrestrials, Fibonacci sequence, fine structure constant, Golden Ratio, Intelligent Design, Jordan Ellenberg, Laurence Eaves, Paul Davies, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, pi, Planck’s constant, quantum mechanics, relativity, Richard Feynman, University of Nottingham, Wolfgang Pauli
Richard Feynman called 1/137, the fine structure constant, “a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man.” Source
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Avi Loeb: “Nature Does Not Produce Such Things”

'Oumuamua, aliens, astronomer, astrophysicist, Avi Loeb, design detection, design filter, explanatory filter, extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrials, Harvard University, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Intelligent Design, Live Science, Michael Egnor, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, solar system, space archaeology, William Dembski
Loeb describes his journey to a radical position on the strange interstellar visitor that’s been dubbed 'Oumuamua. Source
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