Curb your enthusiasm, true believers, since Emmett Lindner’s conversation with his colleague Kenneth Chang has really nothing to do with UFOlogy despite the New York Times breaking the Tic-Tac story five years ago. If you like your science gray as your ladies, fine, but it’s a clickbait lede for what amounts to getting a mythical gold watch from your employer for service. Far more relevant to our interests is Troy Farah’s provocative, and self-depricating, question, “Are We Too Primitive For Aliens To Bother With Us? Well some scientists think so and they’ve uploaded their thesis to arXiv but perhaps ‘boring’ isn’t so bad according to Amri Wandel and his pals. In fact ‘boring’ may well refute the Rare Earth hypothesis but may imply there may be sophonts like Elon Musk elsewhere in the universe. Still if there was a non-asshole version of Elon Musk, as humanity was duped into believing back around 2014, perhaps he’d be developing starships using gravitational drives. Just so happens a Team Of Physicists Suggests LIGO Could Be Used To Detect Giant Alien Spacecraft. Dig the specs on this hypothetical baby, courtesy of Bob Yirka, and imagine the possibilities. At oblique angles to this maverick proposition is The Strange Theory That Aliens Are Living In Black Holes which is hardly new since David Brin played with the possibility in his yarn The Crystal Spheres in 1984, and I posted about it at the Daily Grail six years ago with SETI Should Consider Black Holes As Potential Targets. Still it’s the end of the year, slow news week, but the idea remains sufficiently fresh and full of a sensawunda that you, dear anomalist, should check out Unveiled‘s video presentation. (CS)
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