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The perils of single-dish SETI

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Apparently this was printed around the time of the Allen Hills Meteorite debacle in 1996. I honestly think it's a bit harsh on the journalists. In that example (as often happens), there are many scientists who present things skeptically and many journalists who represent the science faithfully (though admittedly with "spicier" headlines than the text warrants, due often to their editors' influence). There will always be sensationalist outlets who will find and be found by sensationalist scientists (those exist too), and *sometimes* the kind of sensationalism depicted in the comic does actually happen. Generally, though, scientists like blaming "journalists" instead of considering their part in the complex structures of knowledge-making and communication in science.

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Fun Fact: This comic was made in *1962*, which is just barely after the birth of modern SETI, and plenty before astrobiology was considered a legitimate field of study

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“there is no moral. the wolf eats you one day and until it does, the forest is beautiful.”

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I know not everyone grows up near a coast or shoreline but when I was little I feel like it was such a formative activity to walk alongside the ocean and return stranded sea creatures into the water. A kid can learn so much from finding something like a horseshoe crab, this indescribably ancient creation that is so vastly different from them (a curious little primate), and realizing that this bizarre creeping thing upturned in the sand is in need of their help. It’s an incredible exercise in showing immediate compassion to those that need help, even if they are strange or unsettling. Building those empathy and curiosity muscles at the same time. I legitimately think my mom showing four year old me how to carry a horseshoe crab back to the water helped shape who I am as a person.

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Abandoned Planet, by Ørjan Svendsen.

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"Planted by a lumber company about fifteen years ago, the expressive emblem is composed of larch, which turns yellow and drops its needles each year, amid a sea of Douglas fir"

Brendon Burton Captures Intimate Portraits of North America’s Metamorphosing Rural Landscapes

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Tom Gauld (Scottish, b. 1976) - The Reason I Stayed In The House All Day    Drawings  (All perfectly valid reasons)

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"Sex is what makes us human" is stupid. Almost every species fucks. Humans are the only species that jumps motorcycles over school buses that are on fire. Some other things too probably

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i'm not the praying sort, but i'll probably always have a soft spot for the astronaut's prayer

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"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level

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Kidnapped and experimented on by aliens but I was in the control group so nothing happened

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The fundamental challenge of SETI

(this is such a deeply awesome artwork)

Signal Wizard and the Noise

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take me to the moooon 🐄👽🛸

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Sorry, you didn’t meet aliens, it was just a weather balloon 😂 by cupcaketara

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Windmills at Night, AKA “The Glowing Red Eyes of Kansas”

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Somewhere out there on a planet very far away is a civilization that has included our sun in a beloved constellation of some animal we couldn't dream up if we tried