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UFOs and Aliens
What makes more sense, it’s aliens or (insert any rational explanation you can think of here)? The ‘what’s more plausible’ argument employed by reasonable humans, even skeptics, is an unreasonable standard when approaching a paradigm busting phenomena. Hypothetically, if it were aliens demonstrating a technological understand of physics that humans aren’t aware of- anything academically approved as rational will fail. Any rational human explanation will likely fail. Sometimes, the Universe just isn’t rational. Like Life. Let’s explore the evidence- per science.
There is evidence even good, old Carl Sagan believed in aliens. What evidence do I hold for that? Well, he was the first legitimate ancient alien theorist, as noted here. Also, I would say his book Contact, which was subsequently made into a movie with Jodie Foster is evidence. Though it is fiction, notice the interplay between science, faith, imagination, and then, even after all the science of it, an artifact that came about from an alien transmission that didn’t do ‘nothing’ still resulted in a debate, congressional hearings, and the public demanding more. Kind of like where we are now with UFOs.
Don’t stop the debate. The debate’s healthy. What I find interesting is that people are trying to come up with strange explanations that…
