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In reply to the discussion: UFOs exist and everyone needs to adjust to that fact [View all]anarch
(6,535 posts)The whole topic is "a big joke" because society has collectively made a long-term project of making sure it's always treated that way...people get viscerally offended if the topic is even discussed seriously (see: a bunch of responses in this thread); it just bothers them for some reason--usually/mostly people who have some strong emotional or intellectual stake in humanity being the very top pinnacle of evolutionary possibility.
I find it ironic to see such hubris in a species with such a fundamentally poor understanding of the most basic elements of physical "reality" (see: the entire history of quantum theory & wave/particle duality; gravity/galaxy rotation problem; quantum entanglement/EPR paradox; what even is the base "reality" if one even exists, what is "consciousness"?, etc...these are "serious" topics of science, despite some of the theories I've read seeming way more far out-there and speculative than anything anywhere in serious investigative journalism regarding unexplained aerial phenomena)