For this hypothetical, let’s say it’s not aliens actually visiting earth. But let’s say JWST finds a planet maybe a few hundred light years away, and we can see lights and cities and maybe spaceships or stuff like that around it. So no contact, but 100% proof there’s intelligent life out there. How would humans (and different groups of humans, like conservative Christians) react to this?

  • RNAi [he/him]
    ·
    8 months ago

    I need this to happen

    What would happen?

    • New racism unlocked,
    • All porn videos titles become "my alien step-[relative] catches me watching alien porn"
    • "In other news: NASA, brought to you by McWhopper, stated that this new subhuman intelligent species also lives under capitalism, obviously. Coming up: ¿Is China sabotaging our efforts to communicate with the aliens?",
    • A gazillion new NewAge cults and scams popping up everywhere,
    • Evangelicals become even more blood-thirst, [I know this is always true no matter what]
    • Elon do some new stupid scams and cameos in the most racist slop movies ever [also always true]