[adriand]

My fantasy is that at some point we’ll have a sufficiently powerful telescope to cause a galactic “Van Leeuwenhoek moment” where, just like that discoverer of microbes, we will suddenly see the galaxy swarming with spacecraft.

[sneak]

Assume for a moment that happens. Can you possibly imagine the chaos and turmoil that causes on Earth?

[unfunco]

No? I genuinely think most of the world will have moved on and will be caring about something else within a day, the world will be about as chaotic and tumultuous as it was shortly after the discovery of microbes.

[booleandilemma]

Microbes weren't discovered everywhere all at once though. I think if the entire planet found out (through modern media) people would go ballistic.