'Last month, Lord Martin Rees, the president of Britain's Royal Society and "astronomer to the Queen of England", hosted the National Science Academy's first conference on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, which was attended by such scientific illuminaries as physicist Paul Davies, SETI founder and astrophysicist extraordinaire Frank Drake. And the resulting sound bite of the week is "World-Leading Physicist Says They Could Exist in Forms We Can't Conceive"?
'Really? That's it? That's news? That's what we get from the world's leading thinkers on cosmology?
'Sorry for my tone, but it's about time these guys got caught up with science fiction writers from 50 years ago. Check out a 1959 movie called Invisible Invaders. Or at a minimum, take Carl Sagan's brainchild from the late 70's, Contact (film treatment in 1979, book in 1985, and movie in 1997) featuring a highly advanced extraterrestrial race who can appear to us in any form they want. I'm sure there were many other writers who considered that a civilization advanced enough to cross millions of light years of space, might be advanced enough to learn how to cloak. I certainly pondered that idea as a kid.' (The Universe Solved weblog).
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