Rachel Mocks UFO Citizen Hearing

[Moonwalk]

42. Sorry, but you don't get to pull the fallacy of "argumentum ad ignorantiam..."

...that's argument from lack of evidence. If we use that, then I'll ask you how you know there aren't a lot of things--like leprechauns, or that I'm having bad luck from a witch's curse, or that the world wasn't created 6000 years ago and god just put down dino bones older than that to test us....

You can't prove any of that's not true either, can you?

It doesn't work that way, as much as you want it to work that way. No one gets to pull the "you can't prove it's not true" argument and put the burden of proof on those telling you to prove it's true. YOU have to prove, with compelling and viable evidence, that there are UFO's. And, sorry, no, people seein' 'em, even "reputable" people isn't good enough. We know how faulty eye-witnesses are to a crime, how easy they get it wrong. We also know that "reputable" people have claimed to have seen angels, ghosts, demons, etc.

That something was seen doesn't mean it was real--or that it was what you think it was. I'm a sci-fi writer, and I'll tell you that from what I know about space travel, I totally doubt we've been visited. Because distances are loooooooong, getting the power to cross them super-friggin' hard, and the time-window to know that some planet has intelligent life on it is so incredibly narrow that you'd have to be super fast, super powerful, and super able to scan a super amount of space in order to pinpoint one of those rare moments...and if you've got that sort of power, visiting us would be a waste of time.

I mean, do you understand that when we look at the stars we're looking back in time millions if not billions of lightyears? Let's say we actually did see a civilization on a planet that far away...we're looking at them a billion years ago. Who knows if they're still around. If their planet or sun is still around? We can waste that much time and energy if we like, but if all we want to do is say "hi" there are easier ways to do that. Why visit?

But by all means, present your evidence. I mean, real evidence. Aliens, parts of a space ship, trails that indicate certain technology....anything outside of some picture that doesn't show anything or some person who said they saw it.