“If alien aircraft were on Earth, they would need to be carefully calibrated to give us grainy distant glimpses (in every possible way) but never more. If alien aircraft are here, they’re screwing with us.”
I don’t know—this inference seems rather weak. I try to be on time to appointments, most of my failures are pretty small—observing me being late a minute or two a couple of times does not mean that I calibrate being late to a minute or two. Failures would naturally cluster near the border line.
Plus they might be actively erasing evidence when it is too obvious.
“If alien aircraft were on Earth, they would need to be carefully calibrated to give us grainy distant glimpses (in every possible way) but never more. If alien aircraft are here, they’re screwing with us.”
I don’t know—this inference seems rather weak. I try to be on time to appointments, most of my failures are pretty small—observing me being late a minute or two a couple of times does not mean that I calibrate being late to a minute or two. Failures would naturally cluster near the border line.
Plus they might be actively erasing evidence when it is too obvious.