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The main point of your argument assumes a steady state of the universe. The original stars (and the first ones after them) didn't have planets and were made of only hydrogen and helium. Only newer stars had enough elements available in their formation to have planets. Yes our Sun might not be...

The thing is, we don't even know if the universe is infinite. We are trapped inside a relatively small (but actually immense) bubble outside of which we cannot know anything. And as time passes, that bubble will turn smaller and more stuff will be outside. Maybe not intelligence, but at least...

As I mentioned above, Aliens are essentially the same supernatural idea just cosplaying under a different coat of paint that makes it seem more plausible on a glance, but once you get into it a bit rationally, you notice it is very much not plausible if not outright impossible. (Because by...

I'd suggest leaving this tangent alone. The topic is polarized already and bordering on forbidden topics. The less excuses for animosity, the better. (Besides, do you wanna push your luck against the house?)

More like yesterday, but hadn't had the chance yet. I learned of the ITA (no, not the IPA) a proposed new alphabet im the 60s meant to be more phonetic than the standard English alphabet. It had 44 symbols and was thaught in some school districts (though not nation wide) It was a disaster...

In the sane vein, it's good to be critical and question everything, just not every everything that madness consumes you. The just mean and all that.

@CleverNickName The problem also comes that experiences are many times a one time deal and can't be replicated.

In your defense, who is handling an eight year old "Chariots of the Gods"? (But again I was like that age when I got my paws on "Caballo de Troya"*) *In the Spanish speaking world there is a journalist turned writer who started writing about UFO then moved into gnostic/new age spirituality. His...

There's being terminally and dangerously naive abd there's being a killjoy... Take it from me who somehow manages to be both... At the same time...

Word on my area is that the genuine won't charge for their services. Nothing yells "I'm a fraud" louder than an invoice.

You know the not so big country south of the US that used to be twice its current size. The old to one of your states New M.

The largest land donor to the USA.

In my country we only consume them for dessert. Be it baked with condensed milk and ground cinnamon, crystalized, or boiled with sweet spices and panela.

I thought I couldn't be any more afraid of them. Yikes.

I've always thought about how one could conduct a double blind test to see which observers are more genuine and which are just highly suggestionable. (Or just prove nobody is a reliable eye witness)

It is not arbitrary. UFO claims are essentially supernatural with science fictioney window dressing. Leaving aside that some sightings that truly defy rational explanation -like the above mentioned army list, and in this case there is a chasm between "I can't explain it rationally" and...

Sleep paralysis explains everything. The feeling of someone touching my forehead, the feeling of being strangulated by a dark figure, me waking up with an anguished voice, the door bursting open at the right time, the bed jumping ! All of it is sleep paralysis.

Guilty as charged, I guess. ( Though sassy me would say "given my tagline, it must have been a giant surprise n_n ) In my defense I lean more towards "some stuff is outside the paradigm of reason. I won't pretend I can understand it rationally when it's obvious I won't ever, and that's ok, but...

I would have preferred a "don't know" option. In the end I said "yes" because there's a lot of stuff in the world (and experiences I won't share this time) that tell me something exists. And well, I'm religious myself, so maybe not believing in ghosts as discarnated undead, but something that we...

However I find it more honest to just claim something unexplainable to be magic/supernatural or even ghosts or angels than go towards pseudocientific stuff like aliens and then claim it is 'better' somehow because we are just ignorant and we could always find new stuff in the laws of physics...