Well, if you want to get philosophical, aliens are real as a concept. Even as the search for confirmation continues. Mr. Obama wasn’t asked about proof.
That’s still a far cry from saying Obama was “correct”.
They’re real, and they’re spectacular.
I didn’t say that there is proof of aliens. I just think it’s incredibly statistically unlikely that there isn’t any single celled life somewhere in the observable universe, much less outside it.
I also think it’s fairly likely that Cheyava Falls was formed by life and that we will find conclusive proof of Martian life within the next few years.
I haven’t seen Obama in person either, but I’m pretty sure he has visited the Earth at least once.
As are Santa Claus and Superman. That certainly wasn’t the cite called for.
It isn’t statistically unlikely. It is statistically unknowable…yet.
By simple math- somewhere in the Universe intelligent aliens exist. He didnt say they are visiting the Earth- which is unlikely in the extreme.
Right.
That is what i thought.
No evidence but the universe is so vast, there is close to a mathematically certainty. We have found quite a few planets that could well be habitable, so the math says- yes.
The cite called for was one showing Obama to be correct. He was asked if aliens were real. Full stop. He said yes. Yes is technically correct (the best kind) even if they are only real in the fictional sense.
Absent any follow up question, it can’t be demonstrated that Obama was incorrect.
I still think it was just a joke that the interviewer decided not to follow up on.
I think I now see how religions get started.
“Is God real?”
“Yes.”
“Full stop?”
“Full stop.”
Could be- Obama has a wry sense of humor. But I think he meant “somewhere in the universe”.
Many many many years ago a local TV station was touring “Hanger 18” as a filler video about the-rumor-that-would-not-die. They were treated to people chasing an alien in the background. It was somebody on base wearing a mask. The Base Commander was not amused.
FYI, there is no Hanger 18 to my knowledge.
Nothing at all wrong with what Obama said. He’s thinking of the Drake Equation - the estimate of intelligent technological life in the Universe, for which he has no doubt plugged in his own numbers and done the math - so all he’s saying is that intelligent techno-beings do exist somewhere else in the Universe. Not necessarily that any are here. Even Carl Sagan would’ve backed him up on that.
I saw the teaser headline and thought, “What?!?!”.
Then I watched the clip and thought, “Oh, he’s just saying that he thinks aliens exist…somewhere…and that’s it. What’s the big deal?”
Right, like I said- but better. Darren_Garrison’s link confirms it.
Fox news is reporting Obama’s open border policies extended to extraterrestrial aliens.
“Real in the fictional sense” is an amazing turn of phrase.
You have absolutely nothing to base this on without knowing the chance of life arising from non-organic matter. A number we don’t know. Just because there are numerically a lot of places being discovered that life could live on, doesn’t mean there is a good chance that life could arise there.
Obama walked back his answer but he still wasn’t right.
There are plenty of scientist and astrophysicists who think we might be alone. Regardless, they, Obama or you don’t know what the chance of life arising spontaneously are. Until we do, the vastness of the universe is meaningless