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| ▲ | kristerj 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I think you just did the thing, but with his comment |
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| ▲ | causal 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Agreed, and I don't think you understood my comment. |
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| ▲ | WalterBright 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Perhaps you didn't write what you meant. I read it as we shouldn't think it is obvious that they aren't aliens. | | |
| ▲ | causal 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | > there might be something else more interesting that is neither obvious nor aliens. | | |
| ▲ | kristerj 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I tend to think there is a really good chance all the "its aliens" phenomena are natural phenomena that we are hundreds of years away from even having the tools to study. Probably like early humans trying to guess what the sun is made of. |
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| ▲ | shepardrtc 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why not? |
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| ▲ | WalterBright 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Nobody has ever found the slightest smidgen of evidence of aliens, nor any plausible theory of what aliens would be like. It's about as likely as someone inventing a car that runs on water. | | |
| ▲ | LocalH 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | While it's always good to elevate evidence-based knowledge above "woo" or "belief", it's not healthy to close your mind off completely against anything that isn't currently proven. We might know that we don't know a lot of things, but the most interesting thought experiments happen in the area that concerns the things we don't know that we don't know. | | |
| ▲ | WalterBright 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | When an engineer tells me he built a car that runs on water, he'd better bring some pretty amazing evidence. And no, I'm not going to waste time reading his paper looking for the inevitable flaw, either. I've heard "evidence" of aliens my entire life. Guess how many panned out. Zero. But that never seems to discourage anyone from believing that an artifact on a photo must have the most implausible explanation ever - aliens! Where do you draw the line? Time travel? Teleportation? Astrology? Fortune tellers? Razor blade sharpening? Reincarnation? |
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| ▲ | BobbyJo 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | ... wouldn't this be a slight smidgen of evidence? | | |
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| ▲ | WalterBright 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Sorry to bring the bad news. |
