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Odds of alien life: Very high. Odds of it affecting us in the foreseeable future: Very low. It's an interesting question, and one that I would love to see rese
by ori_b 13y ago
Odds of alien life: Very high. Odds of it affecting us in the foreseeable future: Very low.
It's an interesting question, and one that I would love to see research funding for. But it's also unlikely to lead to any direct practical results for a while, although offshoots of technology designed to answer it might end up being handy.
- warfangle 13y agoThe metaphysical implications would be worth it alone.
- ryandvm 13y agoI think you're overestimating the ability of the world population to intelligently process this information. Hell - a third of the United States thinks the Earth is 6,000 years old.
- kordless 13y agoExcept if, for example, our discovery of the nature of the universe accelerates a change for us that isn't stereotypical of "Aliens from another planet". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity for context.