26th January 2006, 11:42 PM
It CAN be disputed actually.
Here's the deal. Everything science has seen thus far says there is no way to exceed light speed. It is a physical impossibility, because at light speed anything with a mass greater than zero becomes infinitly massive, and as such requires an infinite amount of energy to accelerate it further. We have yet to find a source of infinite energy.
There is also the possibility that someone is lying or remembering the details incorrectly. These are things that current science says ARE possible.
So no, other explanations are NOT less plausible.
Why is it you believe we have actually been visited by alien life forms? What makes you reach this conclusion? Do you just want it to be so?
And lazy, it's rather clear what I'm saying. I'm saying that if there is no reason to think something is true, then there is no reason to think it is true. I have no reason to believe you actually saw an alien craft OR some super advanced secret flyer. The eye witness accounts of a couple of people simply aren't credible evidence. This has been shown to be the case time and again. Anecdote is not the plural of evidence I'm afraid. I'm just supposed to take your word for it?
Here's the deal. Everything science has seen thus far says there is no way to exceed light speed. It is a physical impossibility, because at light speed anything with a mass greater than zero becomes infinitly massive, and as such requires an infinite amount of energy to accelerate it further. We have yet to find a source of infinite energy.
There is also the possibility that someone is lying or remembering the details incorrectly. These are things that current science says ARE possible.
So no, other explanations are NOT less plausible.
Why is it you believe we have actually been visited by alien life forms? What makes you reach this conclusion? Do you just want it to be so?
And lazy, it's rather clear what I'm saying. I'm saying that if there is no reason to think something is true, then there is no reason to think it is true. I have no reason to believe you actually saw an alien craft OR some super advanced secret flyer. The eye witness accounts of a couple of people simply aren't credible evidence. This has been shown to be the case time and again. Anecdote is not the plural of evidence I'm afraid. I'm just supposed to take your word for it?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)