[anon234345566]

if there's aliens out there actually, it is critical to do not let that knowledge be confirmed in any way. Global societies at large are poorly prepared to manage the cultural and practical impact of a confirmed first contact.

Not to mention if these guys are bad, it's for our collective advantage to keep the knowledge restricted to the absolutelly minimal necessary people to manage and prepare the rest for the really bad news.

[krapp]

>Global societies at large are poorly prepared to manage the cultural and practical impact of a confirmed first contact.

We're living in a world awash in decades' worth of science fiction media and pop cultural references to aliens, government conspiracies and first contact, good and harmful . That governments around the world are keeping the existence of aliens a secret has, itself, become a meme within a meme. I don't know if the disclosure of first content would be as much of a culture ending event as is often assumed.

It's not aliens, though. It's never aliens.

[Phrenzy]

If bad aliens exist and they are in the neighborhood, they could destroy us at any time. A culture that can travel to Earth from wherever they come from could divert asteroids towards us.

If they exist, we are at their mercy.