If SETI discovered intelligent life outside the solar system would it help bring humanity together?
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Like Regan said if we knew all the sudden knew we weren't alone in the universe, we'd all start seeing each other as humans, not skin colors, or nationalities, or religions. Funny how not ONE single answer posted befor I wrote this could see past thier own hatred for this or that creed or color!! Regan went on to say "and yet I ask you, is not such an alien force amoung us now?".
Wow not many real answers here mostly political rederict.
This question really exposes what you think of humanity and yourself.
I think there would be SOME dissent, but when your looking at a UFO out your own window it kinda takes some of the question about wether they are real or not out of your mind. I can tell by the dull unimaginitive answers here none of you have ever seen a real live UFO, changes your mind set in an instant, doesn't matter if its manmade of aliens, you'll never be the same.
No. Half of us would want to blow them up, half of us would want to learn all we could from them, and half of us would want to learn better math skills.
Of course not. Fox and Lou Dobbs would have a cow over "illegal aliens"
(Hey Brian, there are 3 kinds of people. Those who can count, and those who can't. :P )
what he said, but i think he forgot the fact that 1/3 of the world will be wanting to convert them to their religion.
I'm not sure how humanity would react since our view of the world is fairly small and pretty much focused on earth. At the very least it would cause some people to pause and reflect.
Pity the poor intelligent life from outside the solar system. Upon coming into contact with humanity the would be beset by religion, politics and that old greed syndrome; following which they would kill each other off in a series of wars, ethnic cleansings and genocides. Humanity would profit greatly from supplying mercenaries, military advisors and selling arms to all parties involved.
might do that,but fer a while,a lotta cardinals,muftis,imams,ministe... leaders,are gonna be seen,stomping on their hats,sombreros,keffeyas,burnoo... caps,collars,along with some rioting among general populations ,mayhem,looting,,then after things quiet down,,the men of the cloth will sit down and update & revise the formerly holy scriptures
The discovery of intelligent beings outside of planet Earth won't do a bit of good to curb our reckless behavior, we have to evolve our minds ourselves.
However, unless these alien beings land directly on the planet and demonstrate some powerful show of force to put us all in check, that would definitely make a difference. See the movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still", you'll know what I'm talking about. :)
I sincerely doubt it. In fact, I suspect it could create a great deal more chaos as human religion deals with the incompatible nature of such news.
NO, There is really no relistic way to "Talk" to them if they were there for 2 reason. One they would not underdatnd our language and Two It would take too long for the messages to get there.
It would simply end the speculation about extra-terrestrial beings.
No dialog could ever take place.
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