RE: Flat Earth - The End Debate
I think more accurately, it depends on what you want to believe. Do you wanna believe people who have spent their entire lives working in a specific area, or yourself and the internet?
The rise in the idea that everything is a lie proven with stuff that isn't really evidence is a symptom of the internet and free information. There's more dis and mis-information out there than actual truth, and that makes decision making very difficult.
We're forced to lean back on simply what we want the answer to be.
Logically, if Byrd can come out and say the truth, why can't his entire crew? How come none of their documents or literally anybody on earth has ever managed to mention it again, with all the anonymity we are blessed with today? It's very unreasonable.
I've skimmed through all the real footage of the voyage... It shows nothing, just a boat floating around and some interviews.
But if you choose to believe there's something, then there is something... that's the issue.
I think this is a dead end thing to talk about though, unless actual evidence can be provided, which, as far as I can tell, cannot
Belief informs perception.
cant find the old footage, some interesting anecdotal evidence tho.. You do believe in aliens tho right?
I believe the chances are incredibly high that life outside of earth is out there, certainly
NASA believes we will find life by 2025. The question is whether people will trust it.
It's a likely target. I doubt intelligent life. They are probably aiming for microbial life, which is quite realistic within our own solar system, I'd say.
For different reasons, microbial and intelligent life both need a hell of a lot of scrutiny that will take time though. Microbial life could be contamination from earth, clinging on to the technology as it gets launched into space.
Intelligent life would come from such an extensive distance that we don't have technology to directly observe them. We can look at spectral analysis of exo-planet atmosphere and perhaps analyse whether it consists of organic methane, for example, but that is not an easy task and can't confidently be proven.
That being said, the new James Webb Telescope could provide a little more details in that regard. Pretty exciting.
its pretty much guaranteed, personally i think there already here ;)
It's cool to think about, no doubt!