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It feels a bit like the lab-virus theory felt last year. If you entertain the notion of it you're supposed to be ridiculed and possibly kicked out of polite soc

• vlovich123 5y ago
  No, it’s not science violating like flat earth or unscientific like intelligent design. So from that perspective, it obviously shouldn’t be dismissed out-of-hand. It’s still so far out there in terms of an actual possibility that there’s no point speculating. Mundane reasons are far more likely, especially since extraterrestrials on our planet would imply extraterrestrials with a significant technological advantage - likely extrasolar (implying FTL) & able to evade all sorts of detection methods. Even if you think there’s a massive government conspiracy to conceal their detection, you’d be claiming this conspiracy is effective at hiding it from all sorts of academic telescopes/satellites/radars (these are extraterrestrials so they’d have to live off-earth). In essence, the claim of “aliens” (particularly intelligent ones) is outlandish given our current understanding of the universe. Of course that could change in the future but speculating wildly about it now & reporting on it similarly is irresponsible. And as for the lab virus theory, that’s a bad analogy. The zoonotic origin is more plausible but it’s probably like 2:1 or 10:1 odds against it being a lab escape. For aliens you’re looking at like 1000000:1 odds against. Heck, humans from parallel dimensions seem more likely at the point where we’re wildly speculating without any evidence. Why is aliens the dominant theory?