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_DoubtingThomas
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UFO videos

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"The US Navy just confirmed these UFO videos are the real deal"
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/18/politics ... index.html

I doubt that aliens visit our planet, but I do think is very likely that alien probes exists somewhere in the solar system. If there are no alien probes in the solar system it would mean that intelligent life is probably rare.

Could the objects in the UFO videos be alien probes? I do not know, but the videos are very interesting.
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I certainly share your doubt that these UFOs are alien spaceships. The important part of "UFO" is the "U" part, that is, "unidentified". One can't logically call them "UFOs" while at the same time identifying them as any particular thing--including alien spaceships. That is inherently self-contradictory. I don't share your view that it is at all likely that alien probes exist somewhere in our solar system, though it may be impossible to absolutely rule out that possibility. That we are the only intelligent life in the universe is extremely improbable, I'm sure, but I am nevertheless inclined to accept that intelligent life is quite rare--so rare that it is quite unlikely that any alien probes have found their way to our particular solar system.
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Re: UFO videos

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Mick West has thoroughly debunked the videos.

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By the time a signal from an intelligent life form gets to earth that civilization could be dead and gone. Same with a signal from earth to another advanced life form.

Unless there is faster than light travel or quantum tunneling or some other back door through the universe, the fact that we humans are stuck in space and time greatly reduces our capacity to explore, let alone communicate with extraterrestrial life.

That also means it will probably be millions of years before another civilization knows that Donald Trump was once President of the United States, so we have a lot of time to cover our tracks.
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