Honestly, if there are people here with these opinions, I am sort of interested to see what they say. My opinion is that the description of space is largely correct at least at solar system scales, the space program largely happened as described although some imagery was "enhanced" (a polite word for "faked" lol) for propaganda purposes, and aliens very likely exist and even advanced ones probably do but they have not come here.

So this would not really be something for me to hash out I guess. I was more interested whether (1) are there people who strongly believe one of these who therefore say we must strongly reject the other and (2) are there people who believe both and if so how is it reconciled.