The braniacs at NASA have just predicted that we'll have proof of alien life within the next decade.
Given my extensive knowledge of the universe based on 4 years of high school science, I was fairly certain this would happen within my lifetime. But with the rate of technology increasing exponentially, it doesn't seem far fetched that we'll have hard evidence by 2025. So the question is, how will you react? Will your belief system be shaken to the core, or will you openly accept this new step for mankind?
I actually look forward to the ensuing gong show. It will be like watching the ultimate societal train wreck. Will there be mass suicides? How quickly will stock prices of gun and ammunition companies go through the roof? How long will it be before we have a reality show featuring the first person to have sex with an alien? And, how will the religious folk handle it?
What's also interesting is whether or not we'll come across alien life less or more advanced than us. Given earth's relatively young age and the millions (billions?) of planets across the galaxies similar to our own, we should expect the unexpected. Will they be a hostile species looking to exploit earth's resources, or will they be benign 9 eyed jelly-fish creatures who have been sitting back and allowing us to find our own way?
In my view, it's just silly to think "if" we'll eventually make contact, and any way you cut it, it will be the most important step in this planet's history.
Given my extensive knowledge of the universe based on 4 years of high school science, I was fairly certain this would happen within my lifetime. But with the rate of technology increasing exponentially, it doesn't seem far fetched that we'll have hard evidence by 2025. So the question is, how will you react? Will your belief system be shaken to the core, or will you openly accept this new step for mankind?
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I actually look forward to the ensuing gong show. It will be like watching the ultimate societal train wreck. Will there be mass suicides? How quickly will stock prices of gun and ammunition companies go through the roof? How long will it be before we have a reality show featuring the first person to have sex with an alien? And, how will the religious folk handle it?
What's also interesting is whether or not we'll come across alien life less or more advanced than us. Given earth's relatively young age and the millions (billions?) of planets across the galaxies similar to our own, we should expect the unexpected. Will they be a hostile species looking to exploit earth's resources, or will they be benign 9 eyed jelly-fish creatures who have been sitting back and allowing us to find our own way?
In my view, it's just silly to think "if" we'll eventually make contact, and any way you cut it, it will be the most important step in this planet's history.
Chances are that when we discover life on another planet, it will be a microbe or a new kind of bacteria, and most people won't care. Most humans will go "a microbe? so?". It will astound some of us and it will barely register with those who heard about it at the commercial break during an episode of Dancing with the Stars. Personally, I will only care about one thing - does it have boobs?
ReplyDeleteYou're right Clefto.It will likely go down similarly to when people lost their shit at Y2K (even typing those three characters makes me feel weird). Around November '99 I dated a girl who , about a week for 2000, ly left town and hid out in a cabin, with hundreds of cans of beans, jugs of water, and yes...guns. Happily, she was the one that got away.
ReplyDeleteClefto....question is, does it have three boobs?
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