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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/5/2025 10:32 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 9/5/25 1:18 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >   
   >> I have no idea how old you are, but   
   >   
   > If it's not falsifiable then it's not a hypothesis. It's not science.   
   >   
   > Period.   
   >   
   >> As for SETI being Science, it is scientific   
   >   
   > It's not science. It's not falsifiable.   
   >   
   > SETI claims four solid decades of failure, yet it's not falsified.   
   >   
   > SETI is a continuation of, heir to Project Ozma, so we're actually   
   > speaking of 65 years of solid failure. When is it falsified?   
   >   
   > Never. Because it's not science.   
   >   
      
   The idea in much of scientific research is to DISPROVE the null   
   hypothesis; that's where the "falsifiability" test/claim lies:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis   
      
   In SETI, the null hypothesis is that ETI does NOT exist.   
      
   Dawn   
      
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