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Originally Posted by djsFlames
It would break a lot of paradigms.
Socially, I think people would band together in the uncertainty of a different/unknown race appearing, despite previous differences in beliefs and ideologies.
I think we would benefit hugely.
Nothing like planetary issues to make small societal problems meaningless.
Plus we would need to be on our best behaviour to have a successfully peaceful encounter with the aliens. Don't want to get drive-by death star'ed.
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Aren't you optimistic about human behaviour... I suspect there'd be all sorts of petty squabbling and attempting to monopolize contact. We'd look like fools to any advanced species watching it unfold. Then they'd probably nope outa our solar system, and we'd be left blaming everyone else.