Re:What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?
by gruez on Sunday April 18, 2021 @09:03PM
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>and a bunch of people on HN would militantly deny that they couldn't possibly have navigated the vast distances across space to get here.
This is a mischaracterization of their position. What those people probably meant is that given an unexplained phenomena, the chances that an alien involved is small, therefore we should look for more benign and more likely explanations. It doesn't mean that if an unambiguously alien ship showed up on earth that they'll deny its existence.
This is a mischaracterization of their position. What those people probably meant is that given an unexplained phenomena, the chances that an alien involved is small, therefore we should look for more benign and more likely explanations. It doesn't mean that if an unambiguously alien ship showed up on earth that they'll deny its existence.