This episode is kept to go.

This is again an issue in human consciousness, isn't it, that we want even our aliens to be

reasonable with us.

They're allowed to be a bit different, but not too different.

It can't be full on, you know, Harry Potter, magical weirdness stuff.

Oh no, you know, now you've gone a bit too far. Now it's just science fiction, you know, because it's not fitting into a kind of a prearranged landscape of what aliens should be like.

Did someone else out there with intelligence have a point for us, for example, you know, that they actually had, you know, some idea of where we might want to go

and have left us some kind of clues about what can help a civilization survive for hundreds of thousands of years.

It should give us a glimmer of hope.

Okay. Welcome to Skeptico where we explore controversial science and spirituality.

I'm joined today by Bruce Fenton, one of my absolute

favorites. Bruce, as you may remember, has been on the show a couple times, is the author,

along with his wife, Danny, of Exogenesis, Hybrid Humans, a Scientific History of Extraterrestrial

Genetic Manipulation. He also has a terrific substack that I

subscribe to, and it's just, I can't believe he gets the content out, but he does. You check that

out, Techno signatures, the search for alien technologies, where he kind of updates folks on a lot of

the same topic area that the book was in.

So Bruce, it's great to have you back.

Thanks for joining me.

I have you prepared now because I told you I'm going to push you.

So I'm glad you're here.

Thank you.

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