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On idiots and aliens

Gavin Foster by Gavin Foster 23 November 201523 November 2015

So, how many of you have ever been abducted by aliens? I first realised I might have been when I googled “aliens” after hearing that July 2 was World UFO Day. Up popped a story on Metro.co.uk headed “I was abducted by aliens — and they put a machine in my body” where a fellow […]

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Star Trek, technology and being human

Bert Olivier by Bert Olivier 16 September 201316 September 2013

When I lived in the US, I made sure to catch at least one episode of the original Star Trek television series, conceived by Gene Roddenberry in the 1960s, which has spawned at least 10 feature films to date. Had I wanted to, it could have been up to half a dozen a night, on […]

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Close encounters with UFO airheads

William Saunderson-Meyer by William Saunderson-Meyer 20 July 201320 July 2013

This is a big month for UFO fans. No, not the metalhead followers of the English hard rock group of the same acronym. One’s talking here about the airheads who believe in Unidentified Flying Objects. First, July 2 was International UFO day. Then Google released a doodle to mark the 66th anniversary of the Roswell […]

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