[Retweeted] Durham University professor and the Chair in Global Law and SETI Policy Michael Bohlander joins Dr. Peter Skafish of the Sol Foundation for a wide-ranging discussion of the legal questions surrounding UAP. They examine why classified claims remain so difficult to verify publicly, how secrecy can create constitutional and evidentiary problems, and why courts offer a different framework for evaluating witness testimony than the natural sciences. Most interestingly, Bohlander shares...

The next major search for extraterrestrial intelligence might involve putting Moon dust under a microscope rather than pointing a radio telescope toward the stars. A new study led by SETI Institute Affiliate Scientist Lewis Pinault proposes searching lunar regolith for microscopic particles that could represent the surviving debris of extraterrestrial technology. Such material might have drifted between stars for millions or billions of years before eventually reaching the Moon. submitted by...

Official Study: Micron-Scale Technosignatures: How a Cubic Metre of Lunar Regolith May Begin to Constrain the Number of Past Technological Civilisations in the Galaxy “The Moon has been quietly accumulating material from space for billions of years, much of it likely billions of years older than the Moon itself,” Dr. Pinault said. “We’re asking whether that ancient collection might contain microscopic traces of technologies that existed long before humans ever looked up at the sky.” “Unlike E...

RT @MaxDerakhshani: When one of SETI Institute's scientists proposes there could be alien debris on the Moon, @nytimes laps it up. But when…

RT @MaxDerakhshani: When one of SETI Institute's scientists proposes there could be alien debris on the Moon, @nytimes laps it up. But when…

RT @RonyVernet: Reason #101 why SETI should be defunded.

Dr Beatriz Villarroel has made a detailed post on X asking astrophysicist Adam Frank to clarify what role, if any, he played in her exclusion from parts of the SETI community. She shared a 2021 letter withdrawing her presentation from a Penn State–associated SETI conference because the research involved Geoff Marcy. Villarroel says the relevant part of the conference’s code of conduct appeared to have been written specifically to prevent her from presenting. She says this was followed by a wi...

RT @GenomicSETI: This should be fascinating, Dr Gallimore is top of the game in Psychedelic and cognitive SETI research.

It's interesting to watch the SETI types. The closer we come to disclosure, the bolder the Search for Extraterrestrial Life crowd becomes with their prognostications. https://t.co/9NmPSSkvKI