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Serpico · 51-55, M
No. The religious zealots will have a melt down because it changes the entire narrative they have with what their holy books told them. The world leaders would fear economic collapse due to a good portion of people losing their minds. But anyone who has half a brain knows they are here and have visited and are far more advanced than we are.
@Serpico ha. perfect answer.
PhoenixPhail · M
@Serpico Your comment reminded me of Bertrand Russell's famous teapot analogy:
"If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time."