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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

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6. does an average person with an average education who believes that aliens travel...

Thu Jul 1, 2021, 08:44 PM

Jul 2021

in spaceships has that belief because of that person's knowledge of physics?

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Why do people assume that aliens require mechanical devices to travel? [View all] Kaleva Jul 2021 OP

Spaceships? We are the stinking spaceships....nt wcmagumba Jul 2021 #1

Bigfoot don't need no stinking spaceship jpak Jul 2021 #2

They are 1,000,000 times more advanced from us BigmanPigman Jul 2021 #3

I thought Oumuamua was an alien ship Shermann Jul 2021 #4

Uh, physics? uriel1972 Jul 2021 #5

no.. uriel1972 Jul 2021 #11

I am quite ready to be wrong.... uriel1972 Jul 2021 #14

"The Ceres Solution" by Bob Shaw Jeebo Jul 2021 #8

Yet these humans have to have evolved on Earth.. uriel1972 Jul 2021 #12

You can get it as an ebook for just $1.99: tblue37 Jul 2021 #20

And they could use an old police call box Ferrets are Cool Jul 2021 #9

Those are surprisingly spacious inside! nt Shermann Jul 2021 #16

... Ferrets are Cool Jul 2021 #17

I thought they went "poof" like Q does. Archae Jul 2021 #10

Daaaahhhmmmm! That was super deep. And makes lots of sense. Baitball Blogger Jul 2021 #15

I got a headache from thinking about the subject and writing the OP. Kaleva Jul 2021 #18

I am bemused by the almost universal assumptions that PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2021 #19