via Alicia M. Cohn, The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room More Americans are confident in President Obama’s ability to handle an alien invasion than in Mitt Romney’s, according to a new poll released Wednesday. In a survey conducted for the National Geographic Channel, 65 percent said they’d pick Obama to deal with an invading alien force … Continue reading
via Malcolm Ritter, AP Scientists have found two Earth-sized planets orbiting a star outside the solar system, an encouraging sign for prospects of finding life elsewhere. The discovery shows that such planets exist and that they can be detected by the Kepler spacecraft, said Francois Fressin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. … Continue reading
via Lee Speigel, The Huffington Post There’s no evidence of any extraterrestrial life and “no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public’s eye.” And there you have it, straight from the White House’s mouth, so to speak. UFO aficionados, skeptics and believers alike have waited patiently since September to … Continue reading