The most interesting part of the alien search is not the silence. It is the possibility that the silence may be our mistake.

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As a mathematician—and given the recent buzz over UFO disclosures—I find myself entertained by a specific hypothetical: If a silver saucer crewed by extraterrestrials ever touched down, then what on ...