{"id":195602,"date":"2024-09-03T04:26:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/belief-in-alien-visits-to-earth-is-spiralling-out-of-control-heres-why-thats-so-dangerous"},"modified":"2024-09-03T04:26:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:26:05","slug":"belief-in-alien-visits-to-earth-is-spiralling-out-of-control-heres-why-thats-so-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/belief-in-alien-visits-to-earth-is-spiralling-out-of-control-heres-why-thats-so-dangerous","title":{"rendered":"Belief in alien visits to Earth is spiralling out of control \u2014 here\u2019s why that\u2019s so dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C4qkIW8rEzQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This belief is slightly paradoxical as we have zero evidence that aliens even exist. What\u2019s more, given the vast distances between star systems, it seems odd we\u2019d only learn about them from a visit. Evidence for aliens is more likely to come from signals from faraway planets.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/kclpure.kcl.ac.uk\/ws\/portalfiles\/portal\/293600954\/IAU_Equivocal_Encounters_Paper_2024.pdf\">accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union<\/a>, I argue that the belief in alien visitors is no longer a quirk, but a widespread societal problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This belief is slightly paradoxical as we have zero evidence that aliens even exist. What\u2019s more, given the vast distances between star systems, it seems odd we\u2019d only learn about them from a visit. Evidence for aliens is more likely to come from signals from faraway planets. In a paper accepted for publication in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}