Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "This is Why We Need to Take UFO Sightings Seriously" video.
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Yeah, but our furthest out object, Voyager 1, is ‘only’ currently 14 billion miles away from Earth having been launched in 1977, whereas Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, is 4.22 light years away, or in other words, using current technology, what would take us 6,300 years to reach. This sheer scale of the Universe, for me, makes it nigh-on impossible that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings or crafts. However, given the 200 billion trillion stars in the known Universe, I don’t for one moment, simply on the balance of statistical probability, doubt that they are ‘out there’; just not ‘in here’.
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@1:00 Being a sceptic is ‘a lazy way to look at things’? Really? Does this guy not realise that all the greatest scientists who ever lived were, strictly speaking, ‘sceptics’? (Leaving aside conventional piety a la Newton) They were, rightly, mighty sceptical of the accepted prevailing theories of day, and went out to form new theories, based on that scepticism, and test them and thus work out what was really going on. Scepticism is the only way numbskull theories are tested and found wanting. Do you think Galileo, for example, would have got any work done if he hadn’t been a questioning ‘sceptic’ not willing to accept the religious orthodoxies of the day? Get real, man. Every person worth their brains who ever walked this planet was a sceptic. Until all the evidence is in.
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