If its officially confirmed we're being visited by aliens (or a non-human intelligence) how will your worldview change?

[Micky Mikey]

Will you be shocked? Scared? Will it affirm your current beliefs?

 

[ba'al]

 

[DatBoiHawk]

I won’t give a fukk. Hopefully they’re black and start beating the shyt outta racist cacs

 

[Fill Collins]

The same way I felt about Ukraine months ago, slightly interested for two weeks and just stop checking after that

 

[Striving For Greatness]

 

[The ADD]

Would changed nothing most likely

 

[Sway]

As long if it ain’t going to be a War of the Worlds type situation I’m good.

 

[martin_van_nostrand]

I already believe there has to be life out there

 

[acri1]

Only thing it would change my view on is the feasibility of interstellar travel.

I think humanity is very unlikely to ever meet aliens. Not because they don't exist, but because they're too far away and the speed of light is too slow. Space travel just seems too difficult and unsafe to be practical. The distances involved are just too far for organic lifeforms to make the trip.


Obviously if aliens show up it means they found some way around that.

 

[Micky Mikey]

Only thing it would change my view on is the feasibility of interstellar travel.

I think humanity is very unlikely to ever meet aliens. Not because they don't exist, but because they're too far away and the speed of light is too slow. Space travel just seem too difficult and unsafe to be practical. The distances involved are just too far.


Obviously if aliens show up it means they found some way around that.

The universe is a big place that's been around for a VERY long time. I wouldn't be surprised if there other intelligences that have been aware of our existence for quite some time.

 

[Anton]

i want them to destory all humans like that game

 

[DatBoiHawk]

Only thing it would change my view on is the feasibility of interstellar travel.

I think humanity is very unlikely to ever meet aliens. Not because they don't exist, but because they're too far away and the speed of light is too slow. Space travel just seems too difficult and unsafe to be practical. The distances involved are just too far for organic lifeforms to make the trip.


Obviously if aliens show up it means they found some way around that.

I think they would view humans like we view ants and roaches. Would you get down on the ground and try and communicate with a roach? Ima say they’re too advanced for us

 

[bl2k8]

Actual visits would be terrifying. I would not want something that had the tools to travel here to be visiting on the regular. If we found proof they existed on other planets but we would never be able to reach eaxhother that would be super exciting. Doubt my worldview would change because I lean towards there being other life out there anyway

 

[Morethan1]

 

[bnew]

man so many people will drop their religion to worship an advance alien species or convert to their religious beliefs.

Cargo cult - Wikipedia

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Cargo cults are marked by a number of common characteristics, including a "myth-dream" that is a synthesis of indigenous and foreign elements, the expectation of help from the ancestors, charismatic leaders, and lastly, belief in the appearance of an abundance of goods.[1] The indigenous societies of Melanesia were typically characterized by a "big man" political system in which individuals gained prestige through gift exchanges. The more wealth a man could distribute, the more people who were in his debt, and the greater his renown.[2]

Those who were unable to reciprocate were identified as "rubbish men". Faced, through colonialism, with foreigners with a seemingly unending supply of goods for exchange, indigenous Melanesians experienced "value dominance". That is, they were dominated by others in terms of their own (not the foreign) value system, and exchange with foreigners left them feeling like rubbish men.[2]

Since the modern manufacturing process is unknown to them, members, leaders, and prophets of the cults maintain that the manufactured goods of the non-native culture have been created by spiritual means, such as through their deities and ancestors. These goods are intended for the local indigenous people, but the foreigners have unfairly gained control of these objects through malice or mistake.[3] Thus, a characteristic feature of cargo cults is the belief that spiritual agents will, at some future time, give much valuable cargo and desirable manufactured products to the cult members.[3]

Symbols associated with Christianity and modern Western society tend to be incorporated into their rituals: for example, the use of cross-shaped grave markers. Notable examples of cargo cult activity include the setting up of mock airstrips, airports, airplanes, offices, and dining rooms, as well as the fetishization and attempted construction of Western goods, such as radios made of coconuts and straw. Believers may stage "drills" and "marches" with sticks for rifles and use military-style insignia and national insignia painted on their bodies to make them look like soldiers, thereby treating the activities of Western military personnel as rituals to be performed for the purpose of attracting the cargo.[4]