Re:Have we already been visited by aliens?
by pdimitar on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:19AM
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> If we assume that Oumuamua is an alien construct, what "new vistas of exploration for evidence and discovery" open up that we are not already pursuing?
Chicken and egg problem. We won't know until people are with unconventional ideas are free to try pursuing them without being mocked as "tin-foil hats" or "conspiracy nutjobs" or whatever.
Let's take a moment to remember how many similarly not-at-all-related-to-space travel inventions have been made due to fighting the space race (who gets first to the moon) (like the CDs).
I believe the quote is not a specific evidence for anything. It's a call for us to adhere to a slightly different principle:
"Let's explore, for we are far from knowing everything and we shouldn't mock people who investigate things that to the majority look absurd. They might indeed be absurd but every now and then we make interesting discoveries".
Chicken and egg problem. We won't know until people are with unconventional ideas are free to try pursuing them without being mocked as "tin-foil hats" or "conspiracy nutjobs" or whatever.
Let's take a moment to remember how many similarly not-at-all-related-to-space travel inventions have been made due to fighting the space race (who gets first to the moon) (like the CDs).
I believe the quote is not a specific evidence for anything. It's a call for us to adhere to a slightly different principle:
"Let's explore, for we are far from knowing everything and we shouldn't mock people who investigate things that to the majority look absurd. They might indeed be absurd but every now and then we make interesting discoveries".