Hm, I don’t feel confident enough to place huge odds on none of these things being the answer (besides, the losses may appear deceptively smaller than they are; if you think $20,000 are a lot, try “$20,000 and having to explain to your wife why you lost $20,000 in a bet, all the while aliens may be attacking Earth”). I think the thing that really peeves me is running to “aliens” as the first exotic explanation as some do. If I witnessed something really unbelievable and seemingly breaking all laws of physics, and had plenty of evidence that it’s not just an obvious trick or forgery, then my next question would be “is someone messing with my brain?”. Because if we go into the realm of the seeming impossible, projecting hallucinations inside my brain via finely tuned electromagnetic fields or something seems still a lot more believable than aliens from outside the solar system to me.
Hm, I don’t feel confident enough to place huge odds on none of these things being the answer (besides, the losses may appear deceptively smaller than they are; if you think $20,000 are a lot, try “$20,000 and having to explain to your wife why you lost $20,000 in a bet, all the while aliens may be attacking Earth”). I think the thing that really peeves me is running to “aliens” as the first exotic explanation as some do. If I witnessed something really unbelievable and seemingly breaking all laws of physics, and had plenty of evidence that it’s not just an obvious trick or forgery, then my next question would be “is someone messing with my brain?”. Because if we go into the realm of the seeming impossible, projecting hallucinations inside my brain via finely tuned electromagnetic fields or something seems still a lot more believable than aliens from outside the solar system to me.