What does “life” mean to you? As we previously explored on Lurking Beyond, alien life might not look like anything we can recognize. Rather than the humanoid aliens offered by popular sci-fi imaginings, alien life could be deeply strange and unfamiliar. A New Form of Lyfe Researchers Stuart Bartlett and …
Read MoreDo you think Elon Musk is a Lurking Beyond fan? We just wrote about alien conspiracy theories, and then the Tesla and SpaceX CEO went and tweeted that aliens built the pyramids. Late-Night Tweet Sparks International Incident If anybody has inside info on extraterrestrial life, you’d think it would be …
Read MoreIf you had to make a list of the celebrities most likely to be alien believers, who would you put on it? I mean, Nicolas Cage has to be up there, right? However, it’s Post Malone who is making headlines this week about his close encounters. In case you happen …
Read MoreConspiracy theorists enjoyed a huge victory earlier this year when the Pentagon confirmed that yes, that footage of UFOs we all saw on YouTube is real. But does that mean all our theories are right? Here are some of the weirdest, wildest conspiracies about extraterrestrials that just won’t give up. …
Read MoreGet ready for a journey, friends. This story has it all: demons, witchcraft, aliens, lizard people… and Donald Trump. On Monday, Donald Trump Jr. endorsed a video featuring Stella Immanuel, a Houston-based pediatrician, on Twitter. Shortly afterward, his account was locked for 12 hours after violating the social media platform’s …
Read MoreThere are two camps when it comes to imagining what aliens would look like. There are the people who think that aliens will be fundamentally humanoid, and then there are those who believe that life will have evolved very, very differently on other planets. The Panspermia Theory “I’m of the …
Read MoreWe’ve all dreamed of what contact with an alien race might look like. Would it be like, well, Contact–a benevolent but inscrutable alien intelligence that decides we aren’t ready yet for the stars? Would it be a cosmic farce like Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? Or would we straight-up be …
Read MoreOne in five Americans believes that aliens not only exist but have visited Earth. But if aliens do exist, where are they? That’s the crux of the Fermi Paradox. It’s scientifically probable that, given the size and age of the universe, alien civilizations existed at some point. And yet we’ve …
Read MorePrepare yourself for a trip to one of the most mysterious places on the planet. The Bermuda Triangle–the area of the Atlantic Ocean between South Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico–is said to be the doom of both ships and airplanes. But how much of the legend is true? And is …
Read MoreIn 1969, Michael “cloning dinosaurs is a bad idea” Crichton, published a tense sci-fi thriller called The Andromeda Strain. The novel follows the outbreak of extraterrestrial germs in Arizona as a team of scientists rush to contain it. As we continue to explore space, scientists must seriously consider whether The …
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