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It's entirely possible to believe that alien life elsewhere in the universe is possible or even likely, but to be extremely skeptical of supposed UFO sightings.
by simonh 5y ago
It's entirely possible to believe that alien life elsewhere in the universe is possible or even likely, but to be extremely skeptical of supposed UFO sightings.
- h2odragon 5y agoIndeed; but having seen the comments and counter-arguments Hanson keeps drawing, I'd say thats not a common position. I see the split as "earth life is only life"; but that's not a great way of expressing it... Better might be "known life is all life" or "all life is known". My particular peculiar kink in this discussion is that I think there's whole orders of life and modes of being, on this planet, that we have at most barely perceived and roughly imagined. So I get to piss everybody off.
- cinquemb 5y ago> So I get to piss everybody off. Not me, totally on board with whole modes of being and life that we are unaware of and could possibly be unable to perceive at the present moment, even on this planet. Very interested in models to help explore/experiment this space rather than those that don't allow to knowledge to be built upon for future proofs or falsification.