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Let's Put Our Worst Foot Forward With Alien Intelligences

Want to make a good impression on extraterrestrial civilization we encounter? The best bet is to showcase our dark side — our foibles, our mistakes and even our most horrifying aspects, says Douglas Vakoch, director of message for the SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute. It's too bad the Voyager spacecraft only contained Pollyanna-ish messages about our lovely aspects, and our propensity for cooperation, because any advanced spacefaring races we come across will probably just think we're not just primitives, but lacking in self-awareness. More »

5:00 PM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
1,393 views, 21 comments

Latest by spudzill: Wasn't that the basic plot of GalaxyQuest? more »

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Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again

Disney is readying another Witch Mountain movie, although they're calling it a "re-imagining" and not a remake. Probably since they already went down the remake route 10 years ago. The new movie will be called Race To Witch Mountain, and may feature Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as someone determined to squash all of your childhood memories. It's even being directed by Andy Fickman, who gave you The Rock in The Game Plan. Hollywood, please let us know when you decide to stop pillaging the past and start making some cool new original stuff, like the first Witch Mountain movies, which are the subject of today's triviagasm. Everything you wanted to know about these great movies featuring alien kids in the 1970s below. More »

11:32 AM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Kevin Kelly
1,685 views, 33 comments

Latest by FrankenPC: Not Witch Mountain!!!! PLEASE oh PLEASE leave that one! Take all the others! Chew them up and spit them out! Have the Rock and Vin Diesel star in each and every one! Just leave that tiny little piece of my more »

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Aliens May Look More Like Us Than We Thought

Scientists have known for a while that the building blocks of Earth life, amino acids, are also found in space. Traces of amino acids have been studied in countless meteorites. But now Arizona State researcher Sandra Pizzarello says Earth amino acids also share the same basic structure with those from distant space. This discovery, announced yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could mean that extraterrestrial life would share other structural similarities with Earth life — like symmetrical bodies, for instance — especially if that life had developed from amino acids the way we did. More »

7:40 AM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Annalee Newitz
3,572 views, 31 comments

Latest by Susan44: It is so refreshing to read that someone else is finally starting to figure this out. I have researched Mars extensively over the last 4 years and have substantive evidence that there were, in fact, (some) Martians that looked exactly more »