nah. The speed of light in a vacuum is constant to all observers.
Just to nitpick, I imagine intelligence can exist without consciousness as well as vice versa.
I suppose another odd hypothesis might be that Earth's orbit changed.
What's this about 3D Sudoku?
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Turns out that lots of people liked soulless music churned out by tyrannical robots.
There's an extensively drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis as well.
Somehow they recruited some good actors for this.
You mention Neanderthals. What intrigues me is that interbreeding with neanderthals apparently did happen, but the Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA that has been sequenced apparently falls outside the range of human variation.
So just spraying to begin with wouldn't work?
Sure. Giant turtles. In the absence of evidence...
Is anyone making 3D illusion rugs?
It wouldn't occur to me to lie about something like that, either. I did fake my way through a few book reports as a kid, though.
Does it count if I thought I'd read it but didn't recognize anything when I started to "re-read" it years later, as was the case for LeGuin's The Dispossessed?
I haven't read it, but David Weber's novel Out of the Dark pits vampires against alien invaders.
bet the aliens are humans with a few very minor oddities
I'll wait for the remake.
I've been wondering when terrorists will begin employing drones.
As I generally do in this kind of context, I'll mention Jack Vance's Lyonesse trilogy, which I consider something of a classic.

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Lost Doctor Who episodes recovered from space. - 47 year old television signals bouncing back to Earth

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