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I hate to break it to you but the amount of bullshit on each side is not even remotely equally distributed. There is an extraordinary claim with zero hard evide
by Cacti 3y ago
I hate to break it to you but the amount of bullshit on each side is not even remotely equally distributed. There is an extraordinary claim with zero hard evidence. And there is a mountain of claimed evidence, all of which has been debunked.
If we ran into aliens, there wouldn’t be any doubt about it for more than a week or two.
You may find both sides plausible, but the difference between plausible and likely is the difference between superstition and science. Aliens are plausible. But so are fairies, faster than light travel, and string theory. That doesn’t mean they’re likely.
- blooalien 3y ago> That doesn’t mean they’re likely. Oh, but they are indeed "likely" (statistically speaking, considering the vastness of the Universe, and this planet being proof positive of life existing in that vastness), but aliens visiting here seems much less likely to me (again, given the vastness of the Universe). > “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” ― Douglas Adams
- Cacti 3y agoWe were talking specifically about aliens visiting California. Not the existence of life elsewhere in the universe.
- blooalien 3y agoI find it extremely doubtful aliens are visiting Earth, due partly to many of the same reasons others here mention, but mostly because of the vastness of distances involved and the whole "speed of light" situation as we understand it thus far. Of course there's a whole mess of "quantum" stuff we still don't understand which could potentially make me entirely wrong about that, and there could be aliens "popping in" (and out) on a regular basis for all I know. I'm just a teensy speck of barely conscious "meat" in all this giant Universe. What do I know? Very little, really... ;)