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Re:I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s by mytailorisrich on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:20AM (#21246388)
> You can't prove a negative, so there are no aliens.

That's self-contradicting.

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Re:I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s by RobertRoberts on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:58PM (#21250975)
There is no way to state something that is non-existent is actually non-existent without a bizarre contradiction.
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Re:I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s by mytailorisrich on Monday October 14, 2019 @02:53PM (#21251487)
The whole point here is that you do not know that it is inexistent and that you cannot prove it, either.

You only need to find a single instance of aliens to prove that aliens exist.

You need to carefully analyse the whole universe and not find anything to prove that they do not. Proving a negative is hard.

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Re:I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s by RobertRoberts on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:31PM (#21255325)
Aliens don't exist. It's total lunacy.

There is more evidence for big foot, lochness monster and vampires than there are for aliens.

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