Re: Fox News: UFOs/UAPs are real

In alt.paranormal JTEM <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/22/26 10:12 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:
> 
>> Scientists do this all the time (looking for bacteria, both living and 
>> dead)! 
> 
> No they don't.
> 
> The pattern goes like this:
> 
> #1.  Identify what to look for, what tells you "This is life!"
> 
> #2.  Find it.
> 
> #3.  Bend over backwards to explain why your test is invalid, why
> you didn't really find anything.
> 
>> And, no, bacteria cannot survive in interstellar space (that is, 
>> "between stars") 
> 
> That's a straw man. What science insists is that bacteria CAN and
> HAS survived dormant for longer than 100,000,000 years, and some
> claim a quarter of a billion years. In rock.

Actually, some of it is in Antarctic ice.


Must be funny to be talking at people that act like you have
on alt.climate-change.

Spooky. :)

-- 
In the 80s I worked part time lecturing at a small college.
"Personology" was a coming thing back then. (I havent checked lately).
The basic 101 stuff. One of the early lectures we covered the basic
diff between intro and extroversion. How the outlook and behaviours
typically differed. How the types matured and usually degenerated.
Introverts becoming more and more engrossed with complex and usually
nebulous things fewer and fewer other people were interested in.
Extroverts becoming fixed in their views, unable & unwilling to change,
and tending to defend at all costs the territory they believed they "owned".
Given it was a medical course there were a lot of extroverts in the
audience. I used to tell them not to worry when they developed a fear
of learning anything new and could only remember material they read in
their 20s. They could always go onto social medial (we called it
USENET back then) and crush new ideas and try to ridicule anyone
obviously thinking outside the box.
There are a lot of big-name extroverts who infamously ended their days
failing to suppress ideas they didnt favour, usually because they
could no longer follow papers outside their tiny speciality (over-fitting :).
Either the first or second time I gave this I would call witty part of
the lesson a couple older gents -- turned out to be surgeons of course --
met me outside and asked me to change my tune because it just wasnt true.
Excellent stuff. It became part of the witty material the next time I
gave the course.