Posted on Feb 24, 2018
How will humanity react to news of an alien discovery?
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So by my guess, a third of the planet would lose their collective shit and run in opposing concentric circles screaming until they were exploited like a bad episode of walking dead, another third would be hood winked by quasi religious charalatans, and the remaining third will side up and hunker down...of course our new friends would get a vote.
How will humanity react to news of an alien discovery?
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Let me be the first to let everyone know just how crazy I am. I have always been convinced that we are not alone. Can anyone who has ever set or laid under the night sky and seen billions upon billions of stars which are sun's just like ours. And not thought about what is out there.
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LTC Jason Mackay
Don't think you are crazy. If you are religious, God created the universe, in all its infinite mystery...why would he make this expanse and we are the only ones in it? If you are a believer in science, there are thousands of stars and earth like planets, something else has to have life on it. We are the only statistical anomaly?
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SN Greg Wright
LTC Jason Mackay - That sums up my beliefs perfectly, Colonel. Absolute hubris to think either 1. God put all that out there just for us to look at or 2. that the sheer statistics of the thing doesn't guarantee life out there.
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Cpl Scott McCarroll
Thanks, I am not religious however I am spiritual I follow the Cherokee belief system where all things are sacred and we are but the caretakers of them. Here's a thought, why when we pushed the limits and we went to the moon using technology that I could do with my phone now did we just stop. Not only us but the Russians and Chinese as well, I guess that for the major players to quit might be attributed to being visited and told we have gone far enough, it's like we now can control atomic power and have been beyond our planet, so something kinda suggested that we go no further. We have engineering marvels that we can't do with all of our technical know how.
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An acronym for you: CHON. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen. These are the four main elements you need to create the biological molecules of life as we know it. Coincidentally, those are THE most abundant elements in the universe. Or...maybe not so coincidentally. So yeah. There's life out there. But that prevalence of CHON is also the same reason they'd have absolutely no reason to ever come here -- there's nothing here they can't get from an asteroid belt around any star in the universe. So my personal reaction would be shocked that they bothered.
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SSgt Christopher Brose
SN Greg Wright - Actually, silicon-based life forms was the theme of one of the very first Star Trek episodes. (ORIGINAL Star Trek episodes.)
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Cpl Scott McCarroll
Cynthia Croft,SN Greg Wright LTC Jason Mackay
All valid points, however I wish to throw my hat in the ring. I think that they have already been here. Flaming Chariots in the sky, Lighting and Thunder the Gods of legions, Things that we still have no explanation for. Heck for all we know we were seeded here. There is the thing called the Missing Link.
Occam's Razor, Occam's razor is the problem-solving principle that, when presented with competing hypothetical answers to a problem, one should select the one that makes the fewest assumptions.
All valid points, however I wish to throw my hat in the ring. I think that they have already been here. Flaming Chariots in the sky, Lighting and Thunder the Gods of legions, Things that we still have no explanation for. Heck for all we know we were seeded here. There is the thing called the Missing Link.
Occam's Razor, Occam's razor is the problem-solving principle that, when presented with competing hypothetical answers to a problem, one should select the one that makes the fewest assumptions.
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SSgt Christopher Brose
Cynthia Croft - The Star Trek ones were big blobs that melted through walls IIRC.
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I believe the reaction would be dependent on how the media reports on the event. If they go all doom and gloom over nothing, it will be riots. If the media decides to show integrity for the first time ever, then (most) people won't lose their heads.
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SN Greg Wright
LTC Jason Mackay - Heh yeah. Getting here would take an energy source that we can't even currently imagine. And 'energy source' translates to 'weapon' in any language. So if they do come we'd best hope they're benevolent.
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