Since the very beginning, Star Trek has mentioned and sometimes flamboyantly shown (Susan Oliver, anyone?) the famed green-skinned aliens from somewhere in the constellation of Orion. Star Trek: Lower Decks likes to poke fun at the various Orion stereotypes, i.e., that they are all a bunch of pirates (or “animal women” being sold off by […]

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Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has continued his serious search for alien artifacts. His efforts started with his shocking (though justifiable) claim that the interstellar object named Oumuamua was possibly an alien probe or spaceship. This object did not seem to fit into typical expectations for, say, a comet or asteroid, in terms of the shape […]

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