Im just sayin. From your posts on here you come off as a person that thinks your more intelligent than anybody else, you talk down to people I dont know if you realized that or not. Even worse you imply that everyone that believes in aliens is crazy or not intelligent.
All Im saying is have some respect for these people who have no voice. The people who are missing or killed cant say anything about it. Or the others who have been killed or have had their lives ruined just for coming out and talking about their experience. The least you could do is recognize or even just consider that aliens are real. Aliens are all too real for a lot of people. I apologize for attacking you, but feel I had a valid reason to do so. I go through enough battles in my life as it is, I dont need another one. Thats all Im saying is to consider it and have some respect for these people, dont talk down on other people and try to make them feel less intelligent, and stop acting like everybody who believes in aliens is crazy. Its offensive to a lot of people, some of us are just trying to live our lives.
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N=N* fp ne fl fi fc fL Drake's equation...
I know.... reality is a bitch. I don't mean to be insulting, but I think the ridiculousness of the premise of alien visitation adds to the possible perception. As I stated earlier, it is the WANTING to believe which allows people to suspend critical science and accept consensus science. There is no such thing as "Consensus Science". It's not science. Someone tell Al Gore this please.
Alien belief and its surrounding trappings falls into the religious category, not the scientific category.
Drake's equation which is posted above is non-sense...... and untestable, thereby rendering it useless. This is the foundational basis of SETI? It is preposterous from the outset.
I do believe in the "probability" of extraterrestrial life simply through the sheer number of galactic systems that surround us. It is an incredible jump of ILLOGIC to then move quickly to alien visitation.
As I said previously, that's not science, it is religion. I liken UFO sightings and abduction* (more on that) to Virgin Mary sightings. One need only inject FAITH to produce sightings. Anecdotal evidence becomes taken as fact. This is not helpful.
Alien Abduction - I will tread carefully here, because of the severity of belief instilled by the proponents. What is going on here? Are people being abducted by the hundreds and thousands all without detection or intervention? Claimants believe this has been going on throughout mans history Is such a thing possible? Is such a thing probable?
The short answer is of course - NO. It is not probable. Since by the very nature of the anecdotal and paltry evidence presented, it is impossible to come up with even an informed guess, let alone a percentage of probability with insufficient data and a non reproducable hypothesis.
The entire alien abduction again falls back upon itself with Drake's equation. Something not testable. Something OTHER than science. I find it difficult to let statements be made as scientific when they are not. If I appeared to demean the person, I apologize. I was demeaning the shoddy thinking and methodology.
SETI is exactly like man made Global Warming .. non scientific.
By the way I never said people who believed weren't intelligent. I think the alien belief population falls into every spectrum of IQ, but so does GULLIBILITY. Something to consider.....
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