Anonymous
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In this week issue of Nova, Sam's teacher says that he thinks that its "possible" aliens might exist but he "doesn't see any evidence of regular visitations". Earth gets invaded by aliens every single friggin year in a very public way, the government and media openly talk about the existince of aliens, it's how Norman Osborn got named top cop. How can any educated person in the MU possibly think something like that? I can understand people in the MU not believing in magic, but this is dumb.
To some degree, this is a storytelling conceit.
The Marvel Universe is meant to be the real world, our world, and to reflect it as much as possible.
In our world, whether aliens exist or not, they are generally not believed in.
Once you get to the point where everybody in the Marvel Universe believes in things like aliens, the whole landscape of the world begins to change in ways that make it into something very different from our world.
We don’t really want that to happen.
And given that there are moon landing deniers and such in the real world, this isn’t too much of a stretch.