Comment on If tomorrow it was announced that aliens were real, highly intelligent, and in communication with our governments, no one would be talking about it by Halloween

EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m with you. Yes, people acclimate to all kinds of things, but sentient aliens are going to take more than a few days.

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Idk. A few years ago the US Government released videos of UFOs taken by US Fighter Pilots, and the conversation about the videos didn’t even last a day.

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    • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The clue is in the name. The U stands for unidentified, which means you don’t know what it is, which does not in turn mean that it’s aliens. The only thing those videos proved was that someone’s camera recorded something weird. Prove that those weird things were actually aliens and not some obscure sensor glitch or weather phenomenon or a secret government tech demo, then we’ll freak out.

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    • LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I remember watching them and the conversation about them. But that’s different than proof and admission that sentient alien life exists. It’s one thing to suspect while also having other possible explanations (could be secret tech that we or adversary nations developed, could be sensor errors or optical illusions) and another for the president to be like “I want you to meet ambassador Xlurg”

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  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    People will absolutely have a hard shit about it when it happens, but I think that, after so much sci-fi exposure in our culture, humanity (or, most of it) would be able to wrap their heads around the idea of extra-terrestrial aliens. Unfortunately, a lot would probably just see them the same way they see any other “aliens”, and be xenophobic (or exoxenophobic as the case may be) jerks about it.

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    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      We almost certainly will be meeting/interacting with alien tech if it ever happens. Living things just aren’t likely to be evolved to travel the vast distances between stars.

      Gonna be AIs talking, if it ever happens.

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  • ApollosArrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There’s part of an episode in Orville about this very topic. I need to finish up that show.

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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Within a month, corporations would try to monetize the aliens somehow.

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  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh, wow, you’re totally gonna love Star Trek when you finally see all 58 years of the shows and films. The. There’s Dr. Who and Star Wars…

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• fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah. It would trigger a shit storm in 10 years time we wouldn’t spend all day every day talking about the day we found out aliens existed, we would be talking about the ongoing wars arising as a result of their tech or some other thing.

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Will I have to keep going to work? Then it doesn’t change my linfe enough for me to care so much. I know it’s a bad thought but life is hard for individuals and it’s hard to care to for aliens if they are not helping feed the kids

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• burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  At some point it would. We still gotta go to work and no one has enough energy to even give a fuck about potential aliens around us.

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