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the sad part is alien life wouldn't even be that big a deal back in the whatevers there were people actually concerned that if we discover alien life it would like, destroy all the religions and anarchy would reign, everyone would just lose their loving minds at the idea that we weren't the only sentience. they carefully planned progressive disclosures and poo poo to warm everyone up to the idea, really roll it in super slow like but now people can literally have their house washed away, or just straight up die, by something they don't, or can't, believe in. they can let their kids die because they conclude that is the safest thing for them. and the attention economy has gone completely zero-sum already, so your news bulletin has to fight with exponentially better crafted entertainment. either: the few people who even heard about it would go huh thats cool and then go back to binging Spiderman versus Indiana Jones on Netflix, or: everyone would go nuts for it, it would be the trending hashtag for three months, and it would be instantly commercialised. every store would be filled with lovely plastic alien poo poo until everyone hates aliens forever, which would take about 3 weeks then as little as 4 weeks after that people would say stuff like "oh yeah, that's right, aliens do exist, huh thats cool" and then forget again and go back to binging the Backstreet Boy Batmen on Netflix
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