FunkMiller
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Because it is unlikely, doesn't mean it's improbably.
Bending gravity, wormholes, FTL, many more options for an intelligent civilization to visit us.
That Feynman clip doesn't tell me anything Carl Sagan didn't tell me already.
Whats a more possible cause for multiple aviators having visual confirmation + radar detecting things that are impossible for humans to posess or pilot. Please, enlighten me.
Yes it does. It absolutely means it's in improbable.
The issue is that unless scientists and other experts say something is impossible, people latch on to that tiny little opening (that exists in most decent, thoughtful and detailed scientific study)... despite the fact that the chances of the thing they desperately want to be real still being vanishingly small. And then all they need to do is bring their layman's knowledge of a topic to bear, and suddenly things seem so much more likely, despite the fact they really aren't if you actually study the science.
For instance, you bring up FTL, as if this is a thing that just needs a bit more scientific knowledge to accomplish. Nope. Nothing can go faster than the speed of light. Nothing ever will. It's a fundamental law of existence. The only possible way in which something like that could even conceivably be possible is if you create a machine that is able to move a bubble of spacetime itself through the fabric of the rest of spacetime. However, this violates some fundamental rules as laid down by Einstein in his theory of general and special relativity.
So... Impossible? No, because only because science - unlike social media - doesn't ever deal in absolutes. But most scientists worth their salt dismiss the idea because it's as near to impossible as it's possible to get, because of the realities of spacetime that laymen just don't understand.
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