Briterican writes:
Now... why is it that laymen seem to think this means that I believe in UFOs?
Because the average layman is a stupid idiot when it comes to logic? (in my experience anyway. Most people I meet are severely lacking in logic.)
To my way of thinking, the idea that we, on this tiny speck of a world, would be visited by advanced extraterrestrial life, presumably for no purpose more nefarious than to watch our television and cuddle up to our politicians, is ludicrous.
It is, quite ludicrous.
This may not warrant being a topic, but I'm just curious if anyone else has encountered this anomaly, and/or how you would respond to it.p
I try to explain logic to them. Most of the time they get it. Sometimes they don't.
My standard response is that, short of some sort of warp-drive technology, the distances are simply too great to travel.
Yes, between galaxies, even with warpdrive, it would take too long. but still, within our own galaxy there could be other life.
To go one step further, even with some form of FTL travel, the immensity of our galaxy alone would make visitation astronomically (literally) unlikely.
Not form within our own galaxy. From other galaxies however, yes, I agree.
I hunt for the truth
I am the one Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
-Lyrics by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead