(August 11, 2016 at 1:12 pm)Ben Davis Wrote: Fixed that for you. The current investigative hypotheses are:
1. there are combinations of known naturalistic phenomena working to create unexpected effects
2. there is/are a new naturalistic phenomenon/phenomena at work, waiting to be discovered
3. there are issues with/impacts on the data that have not yet been corrected for
'Aliens' seems to be a subtly humourous proposal that's been taken too far by the popular press. They could have said 'a fly on the lens' but then the joke wouldn't have sold so well.
I appreciate your skepticism. But, certainly, if we can identify intelligent life on this World (setting all jokes aside), then what's stopping us from doing the same on other Worlds?
