12-15-2010, 01:17 PM
(12-15-2010, 01:01 PM)Ali Quadir Wrote: I suspect that as soon as real aliens begin appearing on television this is going to changeYou're right, science can be close minded. But the excellent thing about them is that generally they're only close minded until you show credible evidence of your point. I think when the president of the USA tells people ufo's are real, scientists will allow themselves to look into the subject.
Most scientists I know love science fiction.
Yeah, that's the sort of thing I'm talking about- something that forces people to look at the evidence. I guess it's a question of if this will ever actually happen. I mention this because so often things only happen in our reality when there is enough unconscious agreement that such a thing can, will or should happen. A good case in point are all the spiritualist groups and physical mediums of times past.. there were some extraordinary things that these people could do, but we just don't see that anymore these days. The theory here is that in the 1850's to early 1920's people were in that unconscious mindset that would allow these things to enter their reality. After that period we saw the rise psychology, physics and increased skepticism towards the paranormal thanks to prominent debunkers like Houdini.
I see a similar landscape out there today with our scientific community. It's a taboo subject so the fastest way to have your research funding swept out from under your feet is to start talking about flying saucers. The general public, although obviously interested by the example of Hollywood and books, looks to science to answer questions about the world we live in. This is sort of a vicious cycle of sorts and I can't see an easy way out of it other than to have some sort of white house lawn landing... But how can a landing like that take place when there is no environment of acceptance for it to take place in (free will distortion)?
I guess it could be said that there must be some acceptance already since we have such events as UFO sightings already. The closest we've seen to a white house lawn landing was probably the Pheonix lights in 1997. Who knows, maybe there is hope for some sort of large scale event yet

L&L, Eric