Here's how our world could be set straight

[PJMcK]

If aliens showed up.

Their arrival would demolish our political differences.

Their arrival would destroy all religions.

Their arrival, whether benign or malignant, would unify humans around the world.

But it's not going to happen. Aliens exist everywhere in the universe but they're bound by the same physics as humans. They're not coming.

[Phoenix61]

1. I think it's like a Star Trek thing.

They are sitting out there waiting for us to grow the fuck up. We seem to be a violent people intent on destroying the very planet that gave birth to us. Who likes hanging out with mean, stupid beings?

[dixiechiken1]

3. Very true...

Case in point: How many Repubs do you hang out with?

[Earth-shine]

7. Apparently, all we have to do is have a drunken man launch the first warp flight

and Vulcans who are hanging out in our solar system will come say "Hi."

[PJMcK]

19. Doesn't he get help from the 24th century? (n/t)

[Earth-shine]

21. Whereas that is true, it is not how it was recorded in future history.

[Srkdqltr]

2. Our ancestors, on the planet we came from , were probably put out because they were violent.

Voted off the planet. How embarrassing. 😁😁😁

[WhiteTara]

6. More likely, there were a number of different

genus of homo and homo sapien killed off all the rest and we're being voted off this planet.

[Srkdqltr]

9. That too. Lol

[Srkdqltr]

10. Ever read Jane Castle's Harmony stories?

[WhiteTara]

12. no. Is it about that?

I don't know that I've heard of Jane Castle. Tell me more, please.

[Srkdqltr]

15. Its science fiction romance

How people came from a planet to another and built a civilization. Than could not get back. Very FICTION, ROMANCE
Not gory

[WhiteTara]

16. sounds fun.

I'm looking for a book to read outside on the lounger in the shade and that seems like good light reading.

[Srkdqltr]

18. You might like Jodi Taylor series. "Just One Damed Thing After Another "

The Cronicles of St Mary's series.
She has other science fiction series. Mostly they are about people. Light reading.

[doc03]

4. The Putin Republicans would collaborate with the aliens nt

[brush]

5. Perhaps some have mastered discoveries in physics...

we aren't aware of yet, yet aren't aware of us in our remote spot on an arm of yet another spiral gallery.

It's possible. New physics discoveries are being made quite often by our scientists.

[CrispyQ]

8. I used to think an alien invasion would unite us, too.

I'm not so sure anymore. No matter when or where, there is always a contingent that doesn't give a crap about the community. They'll sell the rest of us out or try to grift anything good for themselves. The pandemic has shown me that there are a lot more of them than I thought.

[Spider Jerusalem]

11. I don't know how you can think humanity will unite when faced with a common threat after covid

the experience of the past few years should've pretty conclusively disproven that hypothesis.

[WhiteTara]

13. the planet is dying and it's business

as usual with a new war thrown in.

[Midnight Writer]

14. We were just invaded by a common enemy: Coronavirus.

Millions of our species died, yet we still did not come together.

In fact, I think we are more divided than before.

[anarch]

17. especially if that alien is Thanos from the 'Avengers' movies

people would probably settle down a bit if half the population suddenly vanished; instead we seem to be hell-bent to kill ourselves off painfully over several centuries since we're clearly doing fuck all to mitigate or even cope with climate change.

anyway I disagree--unless aliens literally and in plain sight took over all the world's governments and took control of all media, you'd just have probably a majority of the population saying "this is fake news" and ignoring the obvious evidence of extra-terrestrial visitation because it is unacceptable to their world-view (you know, pretty much like the situation is now).

[PJMcK]

20. Have you seen "Don't Look Up"?

Pretty much just as you describe our divisions.