What would you think if definitive proof of alien life emerged? Would it consign all religious thought to, as Mark Twain once predicted, the fate of a stuffed ornament in museums? How would suggestive confirmation of the principles of uniformity and plenitude - that if life can form on Earth it can form anywhere and thus will for everywhere - mix with confirmation of the principle of mediocrity (nothing special about humans)? Would mediocrity impact humans relation with technology and would plenitude turn science skyward?
Disclosure Day (2026), Spielberg: https://youtu.be/icDuEHSxE-w?si=jKBowVzx1K6IggNh
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Heard mixed things about the film itself. More so in the final act it gets a bit ahead of itself.
Still to me, Spielberg's masterpiece is Jaws.
Sorry Shindlers List LB.....make sure your children watch it.....it explains so many things about the human race, most notably a lack of empathy!
Movies are extremely subjective Poppa, that's why there are so many of them. Schindler's List is amazing. Though a movie I intend to never watch again.
Jaws I can always watch and get a kick out of. Pretty much the first ever blockbuster. So much of action, horror and thriller films today take elements of Jaws.
But doesn't mean your opinion is wrong either as Spielberg is the goat for having so many great movies. ET, Raiders of the lost arc, Close Encounters to name a few.
Undeniably correct LB, Interesting that you would never watch it again.....everyone to his own.....I reckon I would have seen it about a dozen times, everyone of my grandchildren once old enough I have encouraged to watch it, when I ask them did you watch it, they said yes Poppa, but I am not sure?....no coincidence they call me Poppa by the way. I think I have been known to be Poppa since I was in my forties, probably because I have been telling people what to watch out (yes non relatives) for ever since.
My two youngest grandchildren are 3 and 5 (have some in their 20's) and I am trying to get them to watch Swiss Family Robinson, the movie made in the early sixties...... I'm sure they think I am a bit loopy, but then again they get scared at the pirate scenes and I am there to assure them.
There's already a lot of scientific evidence to suggest that we do not have any imaginary friends, so more evidence won't make any difference to the people of faith.
It is an interesting thing to think about however, life elsewhere in the universe. I believe it's out there for sure, but how much complex life is out there is the real question. I don't think humans are mediocre, I think we are uniquie and similarly complex lifeforms very rare. If a superior and vastly more technologically advanced race of being were out there as some imagine, it would be logical that they would be aware of us. I don't think therefore that such superiority exists, to that level at least.
But good luck Elon.
There is zero natural evidence against the supernatural. The overwhelming evidence for it is that so many people continue to have faith in the existence of 'imaginary friends'.
The evidence suggests there is no supernatural simply because it goes against science, and that is the way we understand everything in the world. However you are correct in the fact science cannot disprove it.
I do not agree that the evidence is overwhelming due to the numbers that have faith. As people become more educated generally faith subsides, 500 years ago non-believers would of been very scarce indeed.
Religious people are athiests to all other religions other than their own. Non-religious people just go one further.
The point here SE and I admire your oversight, but there is every chance they do exist, they just don't want to exist with us....pretty understandable really!
If you think about the vastness of the known universe, and the physical constraints of moving living beings over near infinite distances, it's highly probably that any other existing life forms may never ever come into contact with us.
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