And the exact healthy amount of (not) wanting to believe By MARTIN REZNY Aliens exist. I mean, probably, given that the universe is at least near-infinite and has existed for billions of years, during a number of which life on Earth alone has also existed. The reason why I start…

Bridging the gap between conspiracism and skepticism By MARTIN REZNY Recently, I have been following the fallout from the Pentagon’s UFO announcement. Or rather, the lack thereof. It turns out that it isn’t that big of a deal to most people, at least not during…

And what our lack of imagination means for the Fermi paradox By MARTIN REZNY In case you’re not aware of this bit of math, it is a speculative, probabilistic attempt at estimating the number of intelligent technological alien civilizations in our galaxy that we could talk to. It goes like…

And why it isn’t reasonable to doubt their existence at this point By MARTIN REZNY I understand that the default skeptical position is that nothing that sounds “out there” is, in fact, out there, but I’m not just declaring what I want to believe as the truth. What I believe…

Is That There Are More Than Shreds of It By MARTIN REZNY Well, this is a moment where some actual trying to prove the conspiracy theory wrong is kinda needed. …

Introduction to how aliens would engage in relations with a species like ours By MARTIN REZNY There has been a lot of interest in the topic of unidentified aerial phenomena and/or totally aliens lately. …

If you trust behavior panels By MARTIN REZNY To know what I’m going to talk about, I’m afraid you will have to watch this analysis first (it’s good, though, and I generally do recommend The Behavior Panel YouTube channel): Now, isn’t this interesting. First of all, Derek Van Schaik…

My thougths on the authors’ recent retcon of their own mythos By MARTIN REZNY So I have started watching the rebooted The X-Files and even though I’m still enjoying the return of a classic as a long time fan, the new direction of the myth arc has left me troubled…