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[mindmetoo]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[wormholes101]

[cbclark4]

Printing and Electronic transmission haven't help at all.

Interfacing and intercourse.

[wormholes101]

[itaewonguy]

[RACETRAITOR]

[mindmetoo]

[itaewonguy]

[itaewonguy]

[flummuxt]

My money's on the Red Sox.

In 8.

[cbclark4]

[Ya-ta Boy]

There is an enormous difference between a person who knows next to nothing about something compared to someone who has training in the field when they think outside the box. The first produces nonsense and the second produces breakthroughs.

People who say 'everything is possible' clearly don't know very much about what they are talking about. People who know a lot about what they are talking about know what kinds of things are possible and what kind of things are not possible.

[Justin Hale]

It would be nice, for once, if we could debate the big questions without ad hominem. Also, speaking of "for once" I am somewhat sympathetic to Itaewonguy's position. If someone had said, in 1789 during the French Revolution, that in 200 years time they will, with the Brits, invent an airplane that can travel twice the speed of sound, you'd be regarded as a loony at best.

The debate regarding alien visitors is divided between two camps: (1) people who say there's mountains of evidence for alien visits and (2) people who say there's no evidence at all for alien visits.

I'm a raving atheist and evolutionist (and obviously love science), but I'm dissatisfied with (1) and (2) above. However, since there's no objective way of settling the matter (and because alien visits seem extremely unlikely given the truly massive distances involved) I've gotta side with the skeptics here, I'm afraid, and here's why: We know that space-time can be manipulated, distorted. It's a simple fact of relativity and, actually, the key to understanding the entire cosmos, as those of you who've read Hawking will be well aware. But what you've got to take into account is that enormously massive (yet simultaneously tiny) entities are responsible for these radical distortions of space (black holes) and I'd be interested to see - from the pro-UFO lobby - how they suggest this is done by the aliens in order to travel those ridiculous distances.

mindmetoo is basically saying that unless we have absolutely compelling evidence for alien visits - video evidence and personal testimony (no matter how authoritative the person) don't qualify - one is entitled to not believe. To contrast, it is impossible to believe that the Sun orbits the Earth. It is impossible to believe that man was created at the time of the Agricultural Revolution (5-6000 years ago). It is impossible to disbelieve in T-Rex, because of the evidence, which nobody disputes. What we need is this kind of certainty. Unless certainty is achieved, you're fuct.

[cbclark4]

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. - Albert Einstein


Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein