return2ozma@lemmy.worldBanned from community to News@lemmy.world · 6 months agoBarack Obama says aliens ‘are real’, but not in Area 51www.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down113
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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·6 months agoWho said anything about multicellularity, intelligence, or space travel? Point is, Obama’s answer was vacuously true, and the only answer a non-idiot could reasonably could have given. …Okay, I admit he could have quoted Contact for extra style points: “The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” But aside from that, the answer he gave was the only one he could reasonably have given.
minus-squareMIDItheKID@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months agoTwo possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. Arthur C. Clarke
minus-squarelauha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoI think it is pretty heavily implied in the question.
Who said anything about multicellularity, intelligence, or space travel?
Point is, Obama’s answer was vacuously true, and the only answer a non-idiot could reasonably could have given.
…Okay, I admit he could have quoted Contact for extra style points:
But aside from that, the answer he gave was the only one he could reasonably have given.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C. Clarke
I think it is pretty heavily implied in the question.