exsto_human said:I find it incredibly curious that sensible adults pursue such enterprises as alien watching.
It's an interesting part of our psychology. But ultimately it's a deluded state of mind, just like those who hold Scientific theorys and modles to be ultimate truth.
"Science" is not truth, and it's only thanks to "Science" that you are even thinking about the possibility of Alien life. The universe is a model that works with the data we have about the world. The idea of life sustaining planets are models. The smartest scientists know that models change all the time, and they are rarely convinced of the ultimate validity of their model.
On a more general plain, reading about the world or learning the mathematics of it are not knowledge of the world. Our knowledge of the world is what we see, hear, feel. All that we read and think are just ideas, ideas are not knowledge even if they can predict the behavoiur of the universe accurately.
There are much more interesting things to pursue than proof of alien life or governmental conspiracies or the attention a crackpot gets.
Enlightenment and happiness comes to mind.
Amen brother....
Very true, science and scientific theory is NOT absolute... A theory can never be proven to be true... It can only be proven untrue..
Scientists will easily admit that just the fact of looking at molecules and atoms has some effect on there movement and actions..
Truly we really do not know what they are doing when we are not watching them all the time..
There are many things on EARTH, that we do not understand, yet along trying to find out if ETI mined miranda..