[ via John Redford ] Greg Beaty’s “geek love prose poem” on aliens and culture (high and pop): Aliens enter our lives to save us, because somebody must, and Heinlein is dead.
There is a dismissive attitude toward science as an explanatory framework for the world, and the welcoming of so-called “mysteries” such as after-death experiences, alien abductions, crystal channeling, crop circles, telekinesis, clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, or remote viewing. Not to mention White House murder conspiracies, the “New World Order”, and whatever those jokers on Loveline say. [...]
Tired of volunteering your Pentium II for mass DES keycracking attempts? Donate your spare CPU cycles to a large signal processing system processing data from the Arecibo radio telescope. The goal, is to find evidence of a nonterrestrial, artificial, non-human origin radio source. Link