Yes I know. And I also know that aliens exist. There are 30 million in the US alone. Zero from space though.
People don’t comprehend how hard interplanetary travel is. If they did they would be highly skeptical of extraterrestrials arriving just when the internet becomes a thing. . .
Some people cannot see beyond the "interplanetary travel" hypothesis.
No one thinks they necessarily traveled here from distant star systems anymore.
That is a strawman argument.
When there is a wolf at your front door, you don't dismiss it because wolves aren't indigenous to your neighborhood.
The point a lot of people are making is that there's something here. At this point, where it's from is beside the point.
Based on today's knowledge and technology.
However, I suspect that five hundred years from now we will have solved that problem.
“highly skeptical of extraterrestrials arriving just when the internet becomes a thing. . .”
The claim you are attempting to rebut is not that aliens showed up last week but that they have been here for a long time—long before humans were here.
Most of the “believers” also believe that aliens tampered with our genetic code back in the day...
Are aliens arriving and development of the internet independent events?