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What ya think UFO’s

Do you believe?

  • Yes. It’s gotta be true

    Votes: 33 44.6%

  • No. Crazy talk.

    Votes: 24 32.4%

  • Maybe. Explain

    Votes: 17 23.0%
  • Total voters
    74
#84
Back in the late 80s I was stationed at Ft Polk. One of the guys in my unit was constantly late to 0600 PT formation. Once he claimed he was abducted by aliens on the way to work. Lol.
 
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#95
The majority of people living today have a pretty good camera in their phone and carry it most of the time so why aren't the photos or movies crystal clear? They're still out of focus blobs just like the old 50's movies. The technology to record images has improved leaps and bounds but the photos or movies haven't? I find that odd and telling.

This is the Phoenix Lights and is probably the closest thing to a UFO video but even that is fuzzy.
 
#96
Brilliant!
12bass said:
Humans vary, as would responses to such a revelation. Anachronistic belief systems have never held much meaning for me. I'm a child of the cosmos, seeking to understand beyond such ideological constraints. Sagan spoke to a similar perspective. Much of human nature is a mystery to me, rife with irrational traditions, nationalism, superstition, etc... which a large segment of the population seems willing to defend, perhaps so doing in part because at some level they've realized they've bought into a massive house of cards built on shifting sand and are afraid to seek a deeper understanding that would destroy their false sense of comfort and certainty.

For me, knowledge of extraterrestrials would likely lead to a paradigm shift and a whole lot more curiosity. But then I've never thought humans were anything special in context of the cosmos, though perhaps somewhat special in our tiny little domain on this planet. However, the people in greatest need of a Copernican shift may be the most resistant to accepting reality, as it would topple their belief systems. But I'd like to think we could rebuild society on a much more solid rational, scientific, foundation moving forward.
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#97
sleddogn said:
Maybe, aliens seeded life here on earth. Those alien's could be considered one or many of the "God's" that humans have assumed started life and created earth....just an idea
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Maybe... but is there any evidence which points to that particular hypothesis versus abiogenesis? It seems to be another variation on the god-of-the-gaps idea, where the origin of life is pushed another step beyond reach, presumably in an effort to preserve "mystery", leaving a gap open for something supernatural.

A good scientific theory should be falsifiable, or make specific claims which are able to be tested and shown to be false. Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted that the mass of the Sun would curve spacetime and bend the path of light from stars and this effect was observed during the 1919 Solar eclipse, providing validation of the theory; GR would have been falsified immediately if the apparent position of the stars had not been affected. It is trivial to come up with an infinite number of unfalsifiable hypotheses about the origin of life, so they don't really add much in terms of explaining anything, unlike a specific, falsifiable, hypothesis.

How the 1919 Solar Eclipse Made Einstein the World's Most Famous Scientist
 
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