UFOs

[chickenfeet]

I don't think I believe in UFOs but now that the Ministry of Defence has officially denied their existence I'm not so sure.

Comments

[kay.livejournal.com]

I always have to laugh so hard when I read things like that ... how supremely arrogant can it be to think that in our galaxy we're the only ones in town.

[rosinarowantree.livejournal.com]

I think the clincher for me was: "Local fields of this type have been medically proven to cause responses in the temporal lobes of the human brain. These result in the observer sustaining (and later describing and retaining) his or her own vivid, but mainly incorrect, description of what is experienced." That's a mind-boggling way of describing mind-boggling!

But even though I don't believe in UFOs it's a giant step from "They're not here" to "There's no one out there".

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

But even though I don't believe in UFOs it's a giant step from "They're not here" to "There's no one out there"

Absolutely. The probability of intelligent life having evolved somewhere in the universe and the probability of intelligent life sufficiently compatible to recognise our existence and communicate with us having evolved close enough/long enough ago for such communication to be possible are two very different things.