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The burden of proof about alien civilisations has shifted: it is now on the pessimists.
Drawn from what Adam Frank said
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Professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester
But I felt like what this paper showed was that the burden of proof is now on the pessimists. So, that's why we called it the pessimism line. Throughout history, there's been alien pessimists and alien optimists, and they've been yelling at each other, that's all they had to go with.
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