Google frequently runs hypothetical scenarios to test the robustness of its infrastructure, one of which has involved a surprise invasion from outer space, according to company executives. Head of security for Google Enterprise Eran Feigenbaum told journalists that last year the search engine provider considered what might happen to its operations...

Paul Krugman, nobel prize winning economist and author of several books on the required reading list when I was in college, said on CNN last week that an impending invasion by aliens could help rescue the beleaguered US economy. Krugman made the remarks during an appearance on GPS, hosted by Fareed Zakaria, in which the economist was asked to comment...

One of the memes that help to constitute the modern UFO myth has it that craft piloted by extraterrestrials have crashed on Earth, the crash debris being secretly recovered by military authorities acting without democratic oversight. Indeed, the modern Roswell myth has been so thoroughly traveled that it now frequently stands in as a metonym for the...