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KilgoreTroutPfc t1_j7clb9o wrote

What do you mean by “believe in aliens.”

“Believe in aliens” is generally shorthand for believing that aliens routinely visit Earth and possibly intervene to teach humans fire and how to build pyramids and occasionally probe the rectums of farmhands.

I think you mean, “believe life exists elsewhere in the universe.” That’s the scientific view that statistically there ought to be life elsewhere if only single celled life, but no contact has even been made nor probably ever will.

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wwarnout t1_j7cqr15 wrote

> nor probably ever will

Actually, there are several possibilities within reach. Mars had water, so we might find signs of current (or, more likely, past) life. Several moons of Jupiter and Saturn also have water. So, maybe within our lifetimes.

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Hopsblues t1_j7d97hj wrote

They are referring to contact from a sentient alien life.

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