Popularized by astronomer Carl Sagan, the actual source of the quote I used to title this post may be from Marcello Truzzi, a co-founder of the debunking group called CISCOP. The concept, however, goes back to people such as the French astronomer Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace —usually just called "Laplace"— (""The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness") or even Scottish philosopher David Hume ("A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence"). It seems so reasonable. The question, however, is should we accept it as valid? The people at SCEPCOP point out that no matter how reasonable it seems, the debunkers or

Global warming is something that we are very aware of, but have you thought about its impact beyond the planet? A joint project between NASA's Planetary Science Division and Penn State University have stumbled upon something in their research to find out whether alien contact would hurt or harm us. According to this article, aliens may destroy humans in order to save the galaxy. Hang on, don't head to the bunkers just yet. This is just a theory that researchers think may happen if the effects of global warming on our planet start to contaminate the rest of the galaxy and universe. Other theories include an alliance between human and aliens (to ward off other aliens), indifference (we

Musician Sammy Hagar's autobiography Red hit the shelves last week, and in the book, he states his fascination with UFOs. This is no passing fancy for Mr. I Can't Drive 55. In the book, Sammy details a dream that he had where he was in an alien spaceship, and the aliens were tapped into his brain by some wireless connection. Even though all the events happened in a dream, Hagar said it happened. The spaceship dream was not the first contact that Hagar has had with aliens. When he was four, Hagar saw a floating car with no wheels that was kicking up a dust storm in the desert. He remembers throwing rocks at it, but has no recollection of what happened after.  Hagar's alien

Here in the heartland of Minnesota, Land of 10,000 Lakes, lies Sylvan Lake, but a hop, skip, and jump away from Minneapolis/St. Paul. My fiance has been fishing on Sylvan Lake for over 30 years, having grown up in the area, and in the past 3 years he and I have taken to fishing on a private lake adjacent to Sylvan Lake; the two bodies of water are connected by a freshwater stream. Imagine our surprise when, on July 27, something "landed" in Sylvan Lake, causing a 40-foot wave, eddying water, and a police response that included a 9-man dive team and four city departments. When divers searching 26 feet of murky, muddy water turned up nothing, the county arrived with its side-scanning