The Key to Survival, In Space
We already have the tools we need. It’s time to use them.
Michael P. Oman-Reagan
Michael P. Oman-Reagan is a Vanier scholar and Ph.D. candidate in the department of anthropology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. For his M.A. at Hunter College, City University of New York, he conducted fieldwork with transnational social movements in Indonesia to trace how activists engaged with the globalizing Occupy movement through history, technology, and social media. His current fieldwork with communities of space scientists in Canada and the U.S. examines how possible futures are imagined and built through interstellar exploration, astrobiology, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and speculative fiction. Follow him on Twitter @OmanReagan.
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How to Host an Extraterrestrial
You might be a superb host to human guests, but if an alien showed up on your doorstep looking for some hospitality, would your usual offerings be enough?
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The Power of the Dictionary
Dictionaries are typically viewed as being value-neutral. But they are just as steeped in culture and prejudice as the rest of the world—and they have the power to shape what we see as “normal.”
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Interplanetary Environmentalism (Part 2)
We usually think that exploration and settlement of outer space are all about technological innovation, but we’ll need more than that to do it right.
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Interplanetary Environmentalism (Part 1)
We’ve already left permanent marks on other worlds. Do we have a responsibility to protect the solar system?
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Our Living Message for Extraterrestrials
A brief encounter with a new artificial intelligence suggests we may not be able to control the message we send to extraterrestrial intelligences.