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2018-09-14 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
New Mexico observatory's sudden closure sparks wild speculation
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Posted by Skidmark 2018-09-14 08:31|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 I would bet on alternate reality slip from other dimensions before space aliens. (It would be a lot less work than traveling from other star systems.)
Think the airships in the "Long Earth" SF novel series:
Wikipedia on the series
Posted by 3dc 2018-09-14 11:01||   2018-09-14 11:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Long Earth is like 'Sliders' with more safety doing each transition in something airborne so you don't transition into a cliff or in front of a coming semi.
Posted by 3dc 2018-09-14 11:05||   2018-09-14 11:05|| Front Page Top

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Posted by DarthVader 2018-09-14 11:18||   2018-09-14 11:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Golden Age Science Fiction Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen by H. Beam Piper has my vote. As a bonus most of H. Beam Piper's works can be downloaded for free (the magic word) from Gutenberg.org.
A humorous note: H. Beam Piper had a long running feud with Analog's editor John W. Campbell over the story that made the first half of the book. The original story had a space freighter captain discovering the planet Freya ('whose natives are so identical to humans' that they can interbreed! And were blonds, of course *cough*). John W. Campbell put his foot down "no independent evolution allowing pregnant alien girls!" so H. Beam Piper re-wrote the story to fit into his ongoing Paratime series...
Posted by magpie 2018-09-14 15:39||   2018-09-14 15:39|| Front Page Top

#5 so H. Beam Piper re-wrote the story to fit into his ongoing Paratime series

Freyans are descendants of Martians just like we are according to H. Beam Piper. The principal female character in Uller Uprising has a Freyan grandmother.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-09-14 15:47||   2018-09-14 15:47|| Front Page Top

#6 p.s. Terrans are descendants of martians in Paratime too.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-09-14 15:50||   2018-09-14 15:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Whew!
I always thought the monkey hypothesis was overrated.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-09-14 16:42||   2018-09-14 16:42|| Front Page Top

#8 I have always believed that the Ancient Martians spoke a dialect of LISP.

Hopefully, when we terraform Mars, we do it right this time.
Posted by SteveS 2018-09-14 16:47||   2018-09-14 16:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Zane started to get to close to the truth so they sent in the lawn care people with floating spheres!
Posted by Thregum Greath3827 2018-09-14 17:03||   2018-09-14 17:03|| Front Page Top

#10 #5 Freyans are descendants of Martians just like we are according to H. Beam Piper. --g(r)omgoru
According to John F. Carr, the editor of the posthumous H. Beam Piper collection Federation(1981) he discovered an unpublished manuscript in the Piper estate that he decided to include: "When In The Course___". John F. Carr contends that "...John W. Campbell--who had fits over the concept of parallel evolution,..." suggested to Piper that if he rewrote it as a Paratime story that it would sell--which it did. The story is a mirror image of the published "Gunpowder God" with the same character names... Rylla, Tarr-Hostigos, etc.
I mention this as more of an insight in the odd incident in the journey from author's typewriter to published word.
Posted by magpie 2018-09-14 20:43||   2018-09-14 20:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Per Insty, I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens.
Posted by KBK 2018-09-14 21:33||   2018-09-14 21:33|| Front Page Top

#12 If they call up Bruce Willis, its time to panic.
Posted by swksvolFF 2018-09-14 21:39||   2018-09-14 21:39|| Front Page Top

#13 Seen @ AoSHQ:

"They found bits of an unidentifiable metal with strange markings, and a few tattered pieces of an Adibas track suit."
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-09-14 23:34||   2018-09-14 23:34|| Front Page Top

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