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Going from "unknown if alien civs with megastructures" to "proof of alien civs with megastructures" is new information that would change the trajectory of human
by pradn 5y ago
Going from "unknown if alien civs with megastructures" to "proof of alien civs with megastructures" is new information that would change the trajectory of humanity.
- jandrese 5y agoHow? Other than focusing our efforts at communication with alien species I don't think the day to day life of your average person would be at all different. They are basically a curiosity. Even if we did finally find some, they would likely be so far away that round trip communications would take decades or centuries.
- pixl97 5y agoWell, for one all those religious people that believed they were the centre of the universe will be doing some random scrabbling to explain the change in the status quo.
- jotm 5y ago"Oh, of course there's life on other planets, God made them, too". Tbh, churches funding an interstellar mission (to convert the heathens) would be a mostly good thing
- lucb1e 5y agoUntil someone commandeers the Mormons' generation ship to push an asteroid into the sun
- pc86 5y agoIf the pandemic is any indication, the people for whom alien life doesn't fit into their world view will simply insist that it's been faked.
- dylan604 5y agoEver read/see any sci-fi at all? Lots of them have provided story lines of humantiy not handling this information well. From religious cults to doomsday preppers to all sorts of irrational behavior, the way humanity accepts we're not alone is not always thought to be positive.
- ngngngng 5y agoWell, I just think they're neat
- mywittyname 5y agoI suspect most people who'd find this information to be more than a novelty already genuinely believe in alien life anyway. What use to them is confirmation from an entity they don't even trust?
- michaelwilson 5y agoHeh. Read the news lately? . Religious Cults. If you look at the religiously inspired insanity in US Laws and Politics recently, coupled with what's going on in, say, Afganistan, I'd say "check". . Doomsday preppers. Check. . All sorts of irrational behaviors. Well, if you include enabling destructive climate change in the face of overwhelming evidence, I'd say Check. It's almost like we read all those stories and said "Hold my Beer".
- dylan604 5y agoOr those stories based their plots on these real life scenarios dialed to an 11
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoSure there will be a few people acting irrationally; such people already exist and act irrationally. Most people will say “meh” unless it affects their daily lives.