Post by auntym on Feb 13, 2015 18:03:38 GMT -6
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The truth about ET visits is out there somewhere
February 12, 2015
Sceptics often make patently indefensible claims about alien visitation.
One recently said: “There is absolutely no evidence that we have been visited by ET. ET never went home. He never left it.”
It’s a witty one-liner, but a silly one nevertheless.
Ask most scientists if they believe that life could exist elsewhere in the universe, and they’ll answer in the affirmative.
Ask them if some other-worldly civilisations may be thousands if not millions of years ahead of us technologically, and they’ll generally assent to that too.
However, when you ask them whether some of those advanced civilisations may have mastered interstellar spaceflight at faster-than-light speed they become a little more cautious.
Nevertheless, many will begrudgingly admit that it might just be possible.
As one physicist told me: “We don’t know how to do that yet, but we might be missing something ... who knows?”
But here’s the crunch question: when you ask them whether those space-travellers may have actually visited Earth, they inevitably shift uncomfortably and say, “No, there’s no evidence of that.”
It seems strange. If ET exists, and there is no plausible reason to deny that they may have developed the means to travel from their world to ours, by what logic can we then deny that it might have happened in reality?
If ET could travel to other worlds, how do we know he hasn’t, and how do we know he hasn’t travelled here?
As I’ve said before, it’s simply impossible to assert that no evidence of ET visitation exists.
How could any individual make that determination unless they had visited every square inch of our planet and examined it?
I have no problem with rational sceptics who simply state they’ve never seen the evidence, but I have a big problem with those who assert there is none in existence.
It’s an assertion that patently cannot be proven.
But some do know the truth:
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The truth about ET visits is out there somewhere
February 12, 2015
Sceptics often make patently indefensible claims about alien visitation.
One recently said: “There is absolutely no evidence that we have been visited by ET. ET never went home. He never left it.”
It’s a witty one-liner, but a silly one nevertheless.
Ask most scientists if they believe that life could exist elsewhere in the universe, and they’ll answer in the affirmative.
Ask them if some other-worldly civilisations may be thousands if not millions of years ahead of us technologically, and they’ll generally assent to that too.
However, when you ask them whether some of those advanced civilisations may have mastered interstellar spaceflight at faster-than-light speed they become a little more cautious.
Nevertheless, many will begrudgingly admit that it might just be possible.
As one physicist told me: “We don’t know how to do that yet, but we might be missing something ... who knows?”
But here’s the crunch question: when you ask them whether those space-travellers may have actually visited Earth, they inevitably shift uncomfortably and say, “No, there’s no evidence of that.”
It seems strange. If ET exists, and there is no plausible reason to deny that they may have developed the means to travel from their world to ours, by what logic can we then deny that it might have happened in reality?
If ET could travel to other worlds, how do we know he hasn’t, and how do we know he hasn’t travelled here?
As I’ve said before, it’s simply impossible to assert that no evidence of ET visitation exists.
How could any individual make that determination unless they had visited every square inch of our planet and examined it?
I have no problem with rational sceptics who simply state they’ve never seen the evidence, but I have a big problem with those who assert there is none in existence.
It’s an assertion that patently cannot be proven.
But some do know the truth:
CONTINUE READING: www.shieldsgazette.com/opinion/columnists/wraithscape/the-truth-about-et-visits-is-out-there-somewhere-1-7103882