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You could be onto something there. Especially if they are actually machines (or programmed biological constructs), they may be applying a behaviour pattern that was originally intended for a completely different purpose, or it may have mutated over time (adapting to changes in circumstances and...

Now if he'd actually called himself "Eddie Nostradamus", that's a name a marketer could do something with.

While that's of enormous significance for the issue of finding non-terrestrial life (more specifically the chances of finding such life in our own solar system), the kind of life they're expecting to find in such places wouldn't get much beyond extremophile pond scum. If you want to find...

One thought strikes me: if Apophis will be coming close to Earth but probably won't hit it, then they'd better have a very good idea what they're doing before whacking anything into it, in case they create the problem they're trying to avert. 'Cos,you know, while it would present an excellent...

Not sure I follow that. Who would give a damn if we used nukes in space?

In my case I think it was when Uncle Al (for Alhazred) loaned me his dog-eared old copy of the Necronomicon.

If they won't say who they are, what basis do alleged journalists have for calling them "archaeologists"? And you'd think that any potential investors would want to know everything so they know they aren't throwing money away. If not, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell them and I believe the...

Thanks for that one Don, it's great to be able to hear that. You know, interesting even :)

(on BoA) I'm sorry, but after listening to that performance I have no choice but to with great sadness and reluctance move Stanton to the "Jackass" category.

How can the only acceptable answers be YES or NO? For me the only honest answer I can give is "I don't know".

OK. I have one objection which is religious and therefore irrelevant to anyone but myself, but another I have is that there is a slippery slope from someone's clearly expressed wishes (which it may not be possible to verify against their current wishes, although that cuts both ways) to various...

On Kiviat's "proof positive" (I'm still listening so I'm reacting as I hear it): as soon as he said "Jpeg" alarm bells went off. As David obviously knows Jpeg is a lossy format. And pixelation in magnified images naturally causes regularity to appear where none in fact exists (if his source...

As I was listening to this I thought "I wonder if anyone bothered to check Chatelain's credentials and involvement with Apollo 11?". So I looked to see what the critics say. And there's this (it deals with Apollo 11 claims in general but covers this one). If someone says "I did this" and "I was...

OK folks, Wild speculation time (because that's what I do): If we allow the possibility that the self persists in a meaningful way after death (and I know that even among those who believe in ghosts that is not a given, but this is spec) there must be a transition of some kind between our...

The fixation on gold in today's show was embarrassingly childish, as if the real value in a transaction derives from a metal. Gold is pretty and pretty good for electrical contacts and a few other things, but other than that what of it? What value does it have to humanity locked in vaults? The...

Um, that's what necessarily happens in the dealings between grown-up countries. And that is how you build trust and hopefully move us away at last from the nightmare we grew up with. Get over it. Or do you imagine the US (since after all, you own the world) has the right to demand intrusive...

The really ANNOYING thing is that Amazon doesn't make MP3 downloads available here in New Zealand. Or generally outside of North America. Frustrating.

Listen to Elvis Is Everywhere if nothing else, it's sheer brilliance. But for Paracast listeners I have to give a nod to "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-headed Love Child" (which also features some Rick Astley abuse, so it's doubly good).

It'd be interesting to hear Sheldrake talk about Morphic Resonance and his more recent telepathy experiments. The man is definitely not a fool - there's a good bit in this interview on Skeptiko (http://www.skeptiko.com/response-by-dr-rupert-sheldrake/) where he makes his case particularly...