"I made a legitimate, and CORRECT observation . . ."Oh really? You might want to revisit your own words:
"Odd that you use Hawking, considering he is fairly sympathetic to the possibility of alien visitors."In fact as my previous quotations show, he does not believe that we have been visited by aliens in UFO's, which, along with the question of Friedman's sanity, is the topic of this entire discussion, into which you injected yourself. Apparently the truth offends you.
What, no reaction to the story I linked, quoting Hawking? Or the story in post 169? Why don’t you at least be intellectually honest and read what Hawking has to say? Here, I’ll pick out one quote:
“To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational,” he said. “The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.”
Now, do you want to adapt your analysis of Hawking’s belief, or do you want to bury your head in the sand and remind me of a liberal democrat? Your choice. By the way, I don’t antagonistic until someone starts throwing unwarranted insults my way, for instance, calling me delusional.
Also, for what it’s worth, the truth most certainly does not offend me. As a scientist, I search for it unsarcastically and with an open mind.