Age of Disclosure -- CNN Review

    I'm eagerly anticipating evidence.

    "And therefore, [when] this [proposition is] definitely, in fact, [unconfirmed, then] one must withhold a judgment, so that neither is the criteria [of the kanṓn] being confuted against the [self-evident] clarity [of nature], nor is the [evidence] being neglected [so that] similarly everything [that] is [otherwise capable of] being validated is [now] being confounded." (Ep. Her. 10.52)

    I agree with what I think is your point Eikadistes -- as to the existence of life elsewhere than Earth, I am awaiting further evidence.

    But for the sake of conversation I'll say that I already personally consider the existence of life on other worlds as already having sufficient evidence to be confident of it, given the observation that nature does not make a single thing of a kind as stated in Lucretius.

    To me, that's the same level of evidence on which we should have been confident for the last 2000 years that atoms exist, even though we've never seen them with the human eye. I think it was important to Epicurus to take the position that we can affirm that certain things exist with confidence even though we've never observed them directly with the senses.

    These specific UFO allegations, of course, could be entirely bogus. I wouldn't treat them with the same level of deference as I would the general proposition that life exists elsewhere.