I quit following this thread closely because it seems there are mostly two types of posters: those that have closed their minds to the possibility of alien life, and those that keep believing all the bullshit being spewed.
As to all of the alien stories today, I spend no time at all paying attention because it’s impossible to determine if someone is just grifting or trying to get attention. If real conclusive evidence really emerges, we will all know it pretty quick.
To the closed minded crowd, for some people like myself it isn’t religion or defying the laws of physics. The “laws” of physic have been broken many times over hundreds of years not because the laws have changed but because man’s understanding of physics has evolved greatly. I’m just saying it can and will happen again.
Whether it’s time travel, or time and space discontinuity, man can and will make new discoveries. So I don’t rule out those possibilities and really no one should. Because if you do, you are saying man has learned everything there is to learn about physics, which history has shown isn’t true.
But the bigger reason alien life shouldn’t be dismissed is because of our existence. It’s not necessarily a religious question. For some people it is, and they could be right or wrong. But our existence can’t be denied. By definition our existence implies there are things we don’t understand about the world. How did we get here? What is this? Where do we go, if anywhere? Those are monumental questions, and dismissing aliens as a possibility when these types of bigger questions exist is a bit silly.