Spotted at Rome’s Fashion Week, this piece, “Fishlike Alien With A Literal Boob In The Center” from Gianni Molaro, looks like a fishlike alien that has a literal boob in the center. This is what fashion has come to. For real fashion, check out our sister site Styleite.

The above image does not depict a shot glass full of red Kool-Aid that was left in a very warm garage for a few months, but a drink intentionally made to look insane. Dubbed the “Alien Brain Hemorrhage,” the cocktail consists of half a shot glass full of peach schnapps, with Bailey’s Irish Cream poured on top. Once the shot is almost full, a small amount of blue curacao is added, and once that settles, a small splash of grenadine tops the drink off. Head on past the break to check out a video of the concoction.

The Old Murder House Theatre troupe in Austin, Texas has a mision. And that mission is apparently to perform stage versions of “classic” films from the ’80s and ’90s. For their rendition of Aliens, the group decided to go the extra mile and turn the sci-fi action epic into an ice skating musical. And that is wonderful.

Perhaps in the vein of “ask a silly question, get a silly answer,” the White House has formally stated that there is no evidence of extraterrestrial contact with the Earth, and no efforts to hide said non-existant extraterrestrial activity from the public. But that’s just what they would say, isn’t it?

The response comes from Phil Larson of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy in response to two We The People online petitions.

I’ll hedge the headline and point out that it is as “confirmed” as anything 20 light-years away from Earth can be. That said, new research is presenting a strong argument that the rocky planet Gliese 581d could, indeed, harbor life. Readers will recall the name as just over a year ago that its neighbor, Gliese 581g, was thought to be habitable. Those hopes were dashed, when further research showed that 581g may not even exist.

581d on the other hand has much better chances. It orbits towards the edge of the so-called “Goldilocks zone,” an orbit far enough away from a star where conditions are “just right” for life. The planet is larger than Earth, exerting about twice our home planet’s gravity, and has a thick carbon-dioxide atmosphere. According to France’s National Centre for Scientific Research, which modeled the conditions of 581d, liquid water and possibly oceans could exist on the planet.

The SETI Institute, that nifty organization that searches for extra-terrestrial life, claims that due to government cutbacks, it does not have the funds to sustain the search for alien life anymore, dooming Earthlings to find out about an alien invasion once we’re already enslaved.

On top of this suspension of SETI’s search for alien life, the large field of radio dishes that SETI used to search for signals will be going into hibernation. Sad day for people who were hoping intelligent alien life would be discovered in their lifetime, at least, the kind of discovery that doesn’t involve us being invaded.

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In the 12th century, someone somewhere in Scandinavia carved the Lewis Chessmen, a collection of nearly 100 chess pieces of a particularly unique and expressive style. It wasn’t the first ornate chess set, but it’s certainly a strange and unique set with its shield-biting berzerkers and worried looking royalty. Since the Lewis chess set, the Western world has continued to make stranger and stranger chess sets. Perhaps this speaks to the power of the game, and it’s captivating metaphorical nature. More likely it speaks to the human desire to spend stupendous amounts of money.

Regardless, chess set making has come to the point where it’s no longer about the game but about whatever weird twist you can put on it. And trust us, they’ve come a long way from simple walrus ivory carvings. So whether your covet these gameboards, or laugh at those that do, please enjoy this humble collection of the least humble chess sets the Internet has to offer.

The highly anticipated news that Ridley Scott would be returning to his seminal science fiction setting, the Alien series, has evolved, or, perhaps metamorphosed.  Yes, the joyful facehugger of Ridley Scott and H. R. Geiger creating a prequel to Alien about the briefly and mysteriously featured space jockeys has disappeared, only to be replaced by the chestburster of a completely original science fiction project called Prometheus.

Painful?  Yes.  Surprising?  Perhaps.  But ultimately a happy occasion of new life being born among bloody screams in the middle of an otherwise unremarkable breakfast.

Good news for those who like their alien spaceships properly oozing, dark, and pseudo-sexual: H.R. Giger is now confirmed as a contributor to Ridley Scott‘s new Alien prequel.  Giger is the artist who designed all of the alien looks in the original sci-fi horror flick, and so it is he who we can thank for those extraterrestrials known sometimes as xenomorphs, but more commonly called simply, significantly, aliens.