I view flat Earthers and people that believe in aliens as polar opposites. Flat Earthers think that the Earth is special and the center of the universe, with the heavens revolving around us. Alien believers see the universe as being incredibly vast and recognize that there's nothing inherently special about our world and that life almost certainly exists elsewhere.

[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

There's a divide though in "alien believers".

I absolutely believe that other life exists in our vast universe. This is a pretty common opinion among scientific thinkers, space enthusiasts etc. that the universe is simply too huge for us to be all alone.

I also believe that due to that vastness, we'll never meet any aliens, unless we punch into Europa someday and there happen to be some fish down there.

UFO enthusiasts, on the other hand, have a position that is much less supported by science.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Instead they think theyre the special ones because they got abducted..?

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Oh I didn't realize you were talking about people that believed they've been abducted. I thought you just meant people that believed that aliens existed in general.

[–] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I think they were referring to alien consipracists, who much like flat earthers believe in a global hoax committed by the elite (read: Jews and Liberals) to keep us misinformed on the true nature of our reality (for some reason). In that way they are very much cut from the same cloth.