How would it affect you to have the existence of extraterrestrials confirmed?

I would run screaming into the streets pulling at my air. I would then foment anarchy, buy weapons, quit my job, reject federal reserve notes and stop going to church. At least that's what the government report said I would do so I might as well comply.

I honestly would have to have more information than the fact that they simply exist. I suppose it'd be a good conversation piece. But without knowing if they are friendly or hostile, how technologically advanced they are, or whether they are willing to communicate with us, I couldn't say. Cool certainly, but I am willing to bet that society won't hold up well with the knowledge that we are no longer top dog.

It would only confirm what I already know, I think the announcement of them been hostile or peaceful would be the biggest impact on humanity, if the gov was to say, yes aliens have visited us and there peaceful, obviously its massive news but it probaly wouldnt cause a global riot accademic, if they were announced harmful and a threat to us then it would turn life how we know it upside down...

Wouldn't affect me at all, unless they turned out to be hostel. Theres so much to learn about the Universe, 1 step towards discovering it.

It would cange my life a little. I don't trust humans as it is. Now if an alien race came to our world, no matter if the say they are going to help us, I would think they wold want to control us. It is the nature of things. The more advaced culture always wants to dominate the weaker. It is natural.

I would have to organize a public resistance group to combat their encroachment on our lives. Then with a powerful strike and hit them where thery hurt, and drive the space vermin in to space and give back the world to the humans and reclaim our Independance.

Our become their slave once they were done kicking our collective butts back to the stone age like in Battlefield Earth.

Originally posted by NoDecieving
Wouldn't affect me at all, unless they turned out to be hostel.

You mean, if the aliens turned out to be hot Eastern European chicks luring you into their dens for sex, only to find out you are about to be drugged, tortured and die in the most miserable agonising way possible! Haha

I believe it will shake the foundation of all the we are and help shape what we have yet to become.

I would like to see it solidify us, the Human race, as a solitary voice.

It would make us realize we are not alone and that we share all we have been given to explore with someone else.

Would there be problems? Yes. Will religous zealots cast them to damanation? Yes. Will someone human or alien kill a human or alien out of jealousy, hate, rage or anger. Yes. Will governments conspire for and against them? Yes. Will it all get worse before it gets better? Yes.

At the end of the day, we are a war like species. I don't want to argue this point. Its just my belief. We fight and we fight and we fight. From cussing someone out in traffic to mowing someone down with an M60/AK47/any random knife, gun or tank, we attack without provocation and conspire, we hate, we steal, we lie and we kill.

Sure, many of us are good natured. We make the best out of the worst. We try to be noble, helpful and wise as well as war like.

Millions of years of evolution has taught us to fight for survival so that one day we would be at the top looking down. If these aliens are more advanced than us, guess where that puts us? I am not saying its right, its just our nature.

In the end, the change of knowing we are not alone in the universe would do the human race good. It's just the steps that it is going to take for us to fully accept it will be costly, but, worth it.

Remember, this is only and opinion.

Just knowing that aliens exist I would prepare for the worst. Wouldn't want to be the guy who accidentally started a planetary war by doing something foolish, but I would want to be prepared for that.

I'm just afraid one person would provoke a peaceful group of aliens in to becoming hostile.

I love this post. Anyone can come up with a bunch of possibilities for this situation from the invasion ideas to the saviors of mankind ideas.

Personally, I think that if an advanced culture was interested in contacting us that they would do it in such a way that it didn’t create chaos. Perhaps they would have to wait until our human culture was ready to meet outsiders or they would make it appear that their society was similar to ours with just a bit more technology.

So I wouldn’t see our society crumbling. I don’t think that people would lose their faith in their religions. If god can create earth and us why shouldn’t god be able to create a different planet and somewhat different people.

If you look at this as an item you see on the news, it would be interesting but you still need to eat. In order to eat you need to work. So work would go on etc. I just don’t see a huge impact.

For all those people who quit their jobs or anything else melodramatic, they’d have to find new jobs as soon as their money ran out.

Overall, I don’t think that there would be huge societal changes.

So, I'd still open my souvineer booth and sell the aliens some popular earth knick nacks.

Didn't someone actually do a media study into this?

In the case of a massive ET contact they reckoned that the media and the world would be interested up to about 6 months when the average person would then go "Meh... What's for dinner?"

Originally posted by Digital_Reality
Ive thought about it and can honestly not think of any way this would affect me personally except for maybe in an inquisitive way.

BS I bet you would poo in your duds. It's easy to sit back and talk about it, but if it did happen I bet there would be some nervous thoughts running thru your head. Me personally? I wouldn't trust them as far as I could kick them - they can stay the hell away from me, I say.

Anyone know that name of that book where a couple of military analysts actually did a treatise into alien invasion and how we would combat it using conventional warfare means?

They thought that our best chance would be to go "underground" and fight them with tactics much like insurgents use...

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Belief systems would definately be shaken to the core!!!

As it is with all our educated elite,we still don't know if we evolved,were created,or how the world came into being.Everything they say is only theories.We have absolutely no evidence available (to my knowledge) to prove or disprove any of it.

It would definately be interesting to say the least and nice if they had answers!

On the other hand there would definately be problems.Sad to say that "The spread of knowledge and education has taught mankind little in the art of self control and even less in living with one another"(Author unknown to me)

My point is that we as humans still haven't learned to live peacably among the races we have on Earth,so I don't think our inter species relations will fare much better.

If ET's are proven? It is way beyond that for any serious student of this topic surely.

It has affected me very deeply at times as confirmation of et life has come my way. The true nature of the planets in the solar system and the life on them; for instance the excellent, thorough research of Joseph Skipper. Myriad surface life on Mars, if you look close enough at the raw panoramic images on the spirit/discover website, or go to martian lifeforms for a gallery. Or Just take "The case for NASA UFO's" which shows the nasa footage of when they lost the tether, and gives detailed scientific analysis.

Also I have had various encounters on this planet too, but they could not be proven to another.

Sometimes people mention the war of the worlds radio show all those years ago, as if that was some kind of a test and that it has validity for any decisions being made now. But I don't think so. People are in a whole different place.

Contact should only happen with some kind of clear moral message; along with the usefully scientific ones. That can only involve revealing some or many types of secrets; including the ones that today would be called ABOVE above top secret. The singly best moral message Contact would bring, if possible and in my opinion, is the end of all de facto and actual slavery.

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We should start slow. Start with the aliens that look just like us.
- Atlantians - Then move on to the Grays....etc.

I would kind of be pissed off for all these years of government denial and would ask that from now on it's the people in charge and not the government anymore. All the black ops, government people who knew would be in uniform and ready to fight while all of us are partying our butts off and making " hopefully" the right decisions to better our human existance. We would be the ones with the technology and power to abolish money and to get our butts in galactic space where we belonged in the first place.
OK, now that I got that out of the way. I would be very afraid of the unkown and I gueass it depends on whether the aliens land or if we are just told they exist. I would definetly want answers though.

At first I would look at the tv and say wow.....wierd. But it wouldn't take me that long to be overjoyed of the news. I'd be quite curious, and if an alien did appear in front of me. I would try not to be scared and I'd ask it lot's of questions. But overall I would be happy and I would learn as much as I could.

Originally posted by Wildbob77
I might set up a souviner booth so when the ETs came they could have a nice selection of gifts to take home to relatives.

Think of the possibilities.

And exactly how would they pay for them? It wouldn't be a very lucrative business venture for you.

Originally posted by Badge01But the reason would be fear of their infectivity, not of the aliens, themselves.

Though I presume they'd take some kind of precautions, I think it's nearly impossible to guard against accidental contamination with an alien plague were extraterrestrial beings actually to come to Earth in a physical form.

Such a plague would be likely to be so different than anything our immune systems had seen that it would be immediately devastating to all humans, I fear.

In fact, this is one way I know that we don't have any aliens here now, and we probably didn't in the recent past - the lack of any evidence alien virus or microorganisms. IOW, we're still here.

I think it's much more likely that we would infect them with our diseases than them infecting us. Didn't one of the Roswell aliens eventually die because of our germs? Humans can be horribly unsanitary.