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There are serious people who think otherwise. You're two word dismissal is not a rebuttal.
by revscat 3y ago
There are serious people who think otherwise. You're two word dismissal is not a rebuttal.
- baseballdork 3y agoThere are serious people who believe lots of silly things. Your assertion that someone who you consider serious believes a thing is not a "legitimate reason" to believe the US DoD has alien tech.
- revscat 3y agoAnd we have mechanisms in place to filter those people out. They seem to be successfully passing those filters. This makes it more likely they are truthful. I will assume a reply of “that does not guarantee truth/the system is imperfect” has already been given. Of course it doesn’t, and of course it isn’t. There are few guarantees. Passing those filters makes it more likely to be true. More likely. Not certain. More.
- baseballdork 3y agoWhat mechanics and filters are you referring to? They don't seem to be at all effective.
- mc32 3y agoSerious people are also known to have, from time to time, agendas that steer them away from truth for ulterior motives. The laws of physics tell us that if is highly improbable for intergalactic intelligence to be able to visit us. Else we need a plausible explanation.
- revscat 3y agoThe laws of physics were developed relatively recently. It would not be surprising in the least to discover that a civilization 100,000 years more advanced had figured out how to manipulate the Higgs field, and with it negate the restrictions imposed by relativity.
- orbitalmechanic 3y agoIt is.