‘I have no idea what I saw’: Pentagon admits to secret UFO hunting program

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o_O.Q said: 

CrazyGamer2017 said: 

Actually we have been confronted many times in history with this human arrogance proven wrong again and again. One of the best examples of this is many centuries ago when we were absolutely certain that the earth was flat, at the center of the universe and all the stars including the sun revolved around our important ass. And we were so abysmally arrogant about this that just questioning this was considered heresy. You had to be mad to question something so obvious as the earth being flat and at the center of the universe, there is 0% chance that earth was not the center of everything, impossible, unthinkable, mad, blasphemous etc...

Being too certain of something, never questioning beliefs or paradigms is showing a lack of wisdom in my opinion.

yeah, i was agreeing with you, we make massive leaps with our technology and understanding of the universe over time

 

to say that what we understand right now is the absolutely limit of what can be learned about the universe is silly and its wrong

especially since as i've said before scientists admit that we cannot measure 97% of the universe around us with our conventional equipment so they just call that dark matter

Not to be nitpicky about the percentage. According to theory, it's 27% dark matter. 68% dark energy. 5% the stuff we are made out of.

 

Flilix said: 

CrazyGamer2017 said: 

Let me say this: Unicorns are (and I think we agree) 100% NON existing, not 99% not 99.9999999% but a clear cut 100% of Nope, they don't exist. Because there is no scientific logic or sense in imagining that an animal has magical powers because magic does not exist. Magic is simply what people in the past have invented to explain some phenomena they could not understand also magic helped fuel their fantasies. Only science looks at the universe and attempts to explain it objectively, through experiment and methodology.

I think there's very little we can be 100% sure of. I'd even argue that there isn't anything at all.

As unlikely as the existence of unicorns is, what about them would make them impossible? You didn't define 'magic', but it is technically possible that there are animals (whether they live on our planet or not) that have abilities that contradict our current scientific beliefs.

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to go faster than the speed of light. So unless the aliens are able to travel for thousands, maybe millions of years, it's not possible for them to reach us according to our scientific system.

Although everything is technically possible, we should not consider the possibility of all of these things. The chances of them being true are just way to small. Another example: my bed can suddenly start attacking me (because of reasons that I cannot understand, since I don't know absolutely everything that there is to know about our universe), but that doesn't mean that I need to be afraid of my bed (since I know enough about our universe to safely assume that the chances of this happening are extremely low).

That's not a good example. You know what your bed is comprised of, you can examine it thouroughly. How common life is in the Universe/Galaxy is something we don't know and can't say for certain, since we are incapable of observing and exploring adequatly.

 

"Scientists have proven that it's impossible to go faster than the speed of light. "

I got a bad "example" too. When the steam engine rolled out, people thought the human body would melt because of the high speeds.