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Originally Posted by moncton golden flames
don't be so closed minded about the whole thing. just because you don't believe that travelling the huge distances of space is possible, doesn't mean it can't and isn't being done. remember when everybody thought the earth was flat? turns out they were wrong because they couldn't open their minds to the other possibilites.
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It has nothing to do with having an "open mind". It has to do with logic and evidence. Do you believe in dragons that live in the center of the earth? No? That's because it's what's called an "arbitrary assertion". Meaning, it has no place in rational discussion because it's made up - it's hooey - there's no evidence for it.
People believed the Earth was flat...until it was proved that the Earth is, in fact, round. So, until flying aliens land and say hello, all the talk about "well there could be life elsewhere" is pure imagination and is rightly discounted as fiction.