Edward Snowden, the former contractor who leaked National Security
Agency secrets publicly in 2013, is now getting attention for an odd subject: aliens.
In a podcast interview with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Snowden suggested that alien communications might be encrypted so well that humans trying to eavesdrop on extraterrestrials would have no idea they were hearing anything but noise. There's only a small window in the development
of communication in which unencrypted messages are the norm, Snowden said.
"So if you have an alien civilization trying to listen for other civilizations, or our civilization trying to listen for aliens, there's only one small period in the development of their society where all of their communications will be sent via the most primitive and most unprotected means," he said.
More mainstream orthodoxy. Snowden raised an important and valid point. If Shostak&Co were honestly serious about finding ET, they'd do a comprehensive and unbiased study of the the UFO phenomenon right here in the skies of Earth. But apparently, that's the academic equivalent of professional suicide.To read more, click here.