(August 21, 2016 at 4:09 am)Irrational Wrote: So what's the best answer to the Fermi paradox? That we're simply so extremely lucky to be alive that it's much more likely that no other advanced lifeforms exist on any other planet in this universe? Not impossible.
The Fermi Paradox has problems. First, no hard numbers to plug in. Second, why would aliens come here? (The most common answer involves a lot of self-importance on our part that can't be justified.) Third, even if they came here there's no reason to believe they'd HAVE TO contact us. (You trekkies know what I mean.)
Used to be you could put up a smudgy picture and claim it was a real UFO you saw with your own two eyes. As mentioned above, that doesn't work these days.
An for the state of belief, one of the recent heads of MUFON quit a while back, citing absolutely no evidence to support any flying saucer sighting claims.
