It was not specifically yourself, but another writing in here who defined Neil as "...not an effective defender of the scientific method...all actively harmful." Although cleverly written, many can "read between the lines"...."how do you really feel, without all those filters?"
On the subject of critical thinking, all I did was to write out those words inspired by Neils' diplomatic words, mine were too abrupt, not PC, not shrouded in diplomacy. Too colorful?, perhaps. I'm of the opinion that scientific "truths" do indeed exist & this critical thinking winds up bleeding off into other topics, as the "reasoning" mindset cannot be easily abandoned.
As myself, degreed in Journalism, I am aware of how word selection can push emotions, reactions, tilting biases...absolute neutral words do exist, but Pure Journalistic writings using such words are very very boring & dry reading.
I will take issue with your Psychological assessment stating, "...you are projecting... your own self-pomposity..." Please present you credentials within the Psychology profession to back up this statement...or are you just blowing smoke? Reading text, processing meaning & then twisting things around....similar to the words uttered by a child..."You made me do it!"...creating a conclusion out of thin air.
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Words choices.... ah ! if you see a feather stole moving it can be both Quetzcoatl or a dragqueen ! both are extraterristrial somewhere perhaps, but one is more real. So ruled scientifical method is good to call a cat a cat ! So words have sense, many people lack precision by not rulling the words and even less the concepts they can involve. I know a lot of jurnalists and nowadays the level is so low you can not ignore how lowish became their level ! So it is really more about the man than his job if I can permitt !
I was showing you what its like to be the recipient of the kind of smoke you are in the habit of blowing. You like to call other people pompous, apparently without realizing the every act of exaggerating as you do makes you look pompous.
Is my meaning more clear if I just write it out that way?
Appaling amount of nonsense even for the lounge... build a speaker!
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Mystery of the small spherical UFOs solved. Or is it? You decide.
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Given the difficulty and huge timescales involved for complex organisms to evolve, let alone intelligence that we would recognize, the idea that highly technologically advanced civilisations have visited us, and crashed on Earth, is remote in the extreme.
Most respected scientists (Avi Loebbis not one of them) agree, so I’m going to go with their viewpoint on this.
Most respected scientists (Avi Loebbis not one of them) agree, so I’m going to go with their viewpoint on this.
No hidden subtext. Science was better represented for decades by writers like Martin Gardner or field practitioners like Stephen Jay Gould, generally forgotten today.
The only thing I'ld add is 'why would they have any interest?' From our current limited view it's not unreasonable to expect civilisations millions of years both ahead and behind us in evolution. The latter aren't going anywhere, for the former we may only be of interest to Jane Goodall types.
Both Richard Dawkins and Neil DeGrasse Tyson have been thoroughly vilified in the eyes of millions of Americans. As self appointed spokesmen for science, they make an easy and obvious straw target. The Religious Right (who now run about half the country) consider them to be prophets of Satan.
I agree with the comment that they do more harm than good. They foment the ridiculous dichotomy between science and religion. Religion is winning and we are screwed.
Just look at some of the people coming out of Harvard, Princeton, Cambridge and Oxford with degrees and some even with PhD’s.
If any UFOs are (pilotless) “probes” travel here from a distant is not really time constrained, since the probe doesn’t have to return home AND even if it takes 100 years to get to Earth, traveling as some modest speed, nowhere near light speed, it’s not a big deal. Let’s say it could travel at 1/10 x light speed. Or even 1/100 x light speed. Getting the info gleaned from its mission back to home planet would obviously take much less time.
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Yes, even some of our biggest wingnuts here come from top universities. And ironically and hypocritically, some of these same privileged elite are dismantling our education system as we speak (Ron DeSantis for example), making universities into right wing indoctrination camps.
Are people like this evil, or just stupid?
What chances do you think that we can find
extraterrestrial intelligence when our governments
do not have any apparent intelligence down here.
No wonder they have not revealed themselves.
extraterrestrial intelligence when our governments
do not have any apparent intelligence down here.
No wonder they have not revealed themselves.
Being an Army brat. I've travelled more than most. Dad had 32 transfers in 35 years of service. This has exposed to me to almost every city and state in the country and a few outside India also. Dads day job was flying sub space spy planes like the Mig 25.
Ive grown up at Army Bars around the country. After dad got to old to fly. He was put in charge of scanning and Radar defences.
Ive spent summer vacations in ashrams speaking to people who claim to see auras. and modify auras. As well as some who claim to talk to the dead. No where not once have I heard of any UFO story. In person or in the media. The only reference I have heard off are the flying craft spoken about in both the Hindu and Zoroastrian scriptures.
To me its all to do with advanced tech being developed which we will only come to know about 20-30 years from now.
As to these things doing things that cant be explained. My take is these are projections. It would be easy to call them holographic projections. But maybe its a tech we don't know about.
These are being developed for psyops. And controlling large numbers of people. For some reason aliens seem to only be interested in probing Americans and Europeans.
The nearest star (Proxima Centauri) is 4.2 light years away. At 100th the speed of light a round trip from there would take 840 years.
Of course there is nothing of interest and certainly no life there as it is a triple star system which does not allow any planets if there were any to have an orbit stable enough for life to evolve.
Of course there is nothing of interest and certainly no life there as it is a triple star system which does not allow any planets if there were any to have an orbit stable enough for life to evolve.
840 years seems like a long time, right? Not to advanced aliens. To advanced aliens it’s a blink of an eye.
You've been watching Star Trek again!
In the original series episode "The Wink of an Eye", the Enterprise is invaded by hyperaccelerated aliens.
No, the plot made absolutely no sense to me either! 🤓