The new race to contact E.T.

Hot air.com ^ | May 21, 2020 | JAZZ SHAW

[Ransomed]

Active seti was a pretty big controversy, if I recall. They just started beaming stuff out at interesting things, a bunch of the board quit over it.

Freegards

[BenLurkin]

I think her name is Joan Taylor

[EvilCapitalist]

I wasn’t sure if E.T. meant Extra Terrestrial, or Extra Terrestrial’s. I assumed the plural.

[bitt]

the Chinese best leave it to the US - space aliens don’t speak Chinese...

[yarddog]

She sure is pretty.

[wastedyears]

Why bother. If there were really aliens why have we never seen any indication of them except for 1950s flying saucer movies.

Maybe they want to keep it a secret.

[wastedyears]

There’s nobody out there

Awfully bold statement when there's a few hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

[Hugh the Scot]

I believe I have 40 ton of gold bars.

I’ve looked everywhere humanly possible with every tool I had available to me for the last 60 years or so, and haven’t located any portion of it...

Do you believe that I have 40 tons of gold?

(We actually know that gold exists)

Or are you more likely to believe that the gold is just a fantasy of mine?

[SunkenCiv]

What you’re saying that not believing that something exists is exactly the same as believing that something exists.

[a fool in paradise]

>>ETs are maintaining social distance and won’t come closer than 6 lightyears

They heard that the War of the Worlds martian invasion was stopped by the common cold. Take THAT, ACHOO!!!

[a fool in paradise]

Schrödinger’s alien?

[Hugh the Scot]

No. I’m saying the specific words that I type.

If you want to be a typical FR troll and argue about what you wanted me to mean, go right ahead.

I’m saying this: There is nobody out there.

Literally everyone has been looking for “them”, literally forever without a single verifiable shred of evidence that “they” exist.

I’m saying that there isn’t just an absence of evidence; but there is overwhelming evidence of absence.

[LibWhacker]

but there is overwhelming evidence of absence

Careful, you don't want to be the guy who looked under a thousand rocks for a whale and not finding one proclaimed they don't exist.

[yarddog]

Flying saucers are interesting subjects.

There is one thing I cannot understand. If you traveled to a galaxy or whatever which was billions of light years away. Einstein said that if you were flying at light speed you would get there instantly. How can that be?

[yarddog]

He would be right. Whales don’t exist under rocks.

[SunkenCiv]

No, your equating your belief that somewhere on the Earth you have gold with your claim that there is no one out there — it is grossly illogical. You can call that trolling all you want, it merely makes you look even more stupid when you double down.

[DoodleBob]

Maybe they aren't aliens....

[SunkenCiv]

I wonder what a Schrödinger's Moebius Strip would be like?

[a fool in paradise]

I saw a map for it once.
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[dragnet2]

I’m saying this: There is nobody out there. Literally everyone has been looking for “them”, literally forever without a single verifiable shred of evidence that “they” exist. I’m saying that there isn’t just an absence of evidence; but there is overwhelming evidence of absence.

You can say it but the fact is, you have no clue. Btw, we have not come close to searching the entire universe for life. Therefore, saying there is "Overwhelming" lack of evidence life exists outside earth, is ridicules.

An good analogy or comparison would be, in all the beaches of the world, we've searched one handful of sand. The universe is a really big place.