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Re:US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has i... by BobbyJo on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @06:53AM (#36225255)
But claiming it definitely isn't is just as absurd as claiming it definitely is. Maybe even more so.
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Re:US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has i... by hanspeter on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @01:41PM (#36230319)
We still have only one data point for life and one data point for intelligence.

It's absurd to claim intelligent life doesn't exist, as we know it does on Earth. And it's absurd to claim any level of probability for other intelligent life until we have one more data point.

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Re:US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has i... by robdar on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:20PM (#36232067)
> We still have only one data point for life and one data point for intelligence.

Don't we have many points for both? There are ~8.7 million species on the planet. What we only have one data point for is a planet that contains life and intelligence.

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Re:US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has i... by hanspeter on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @04:12PM (#36232852)
I should have been more clear. We only have one data point for the emergence of intelligent life.
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