As Neil deGrasse Tyson has stated, if there were an event that I knew would be unprovable without a strong amount of physical evidence., then I would keep it to myself, and if I couldn't even prove to myself that it actually happened, I would dismiss my own memory as hallucination. If Stephen Hawking himself showed up on my doorstep and said he had seen an alien mothership fly overhead, I would ask if he had any proof, and if not, I'd say good day. Within the scientific community, eyewitness testimony is quite possibly the lowest form of "evidence" there is, because, you know... people lie. A bit scary considering it's one of the highest forms of evidence one can put forth in a courtroom. But if I was completely convinced I had just witnessed a seemingly impossible event (I feel that nearly anything is possible, though) then




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