Seriously, I doubt it would even take that long. We get used to shit so quickly, and the news cycles have to keep feeding us new things, the only way we’d keep talking about the aliens if they kept doing new and interesting things. I’d be willing to bet a year later there would be some people who straight up forgot about it. “Oh yeah, aliens! Are they gonna, like, visit at some point or just keep exchanging calls with the Whitehouse?”
This makes me feel bad. But to be fair humans are generally really adaptable. And don’t confuse what the news is talking about with what people are thinking.
Well written, OP.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hard disagree. Yes, all the other crazy bullshit would continue, but aliens are here among us isn’t something that would just go away.
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.
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.
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.
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.
superkret@feddit.org 1 month ago
Within a month, corporations would try to monetize the aliens somehow.
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…
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.
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
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.