What do you think would be humanity’s reaction to the discovery of extraterrestrial life?

@badminton and some would want to build a wall... and make the aliens pay for it.

@Yulianna Welsh does that to it 😀

@TheSirfurryanimalWales

This is the Google Translate rendition:

Let my foreign sheep look after me,
All through the night
Earthly pleasures are visible before you,
All through the night
Soft the drowsy hours creep,
Hill and dale in sleepwalking
While my foreign sheep excite me,
All through the night

@Thinkerbell Foreign sheep.....
Oh dear!

@bijouxbroussard I know OF the twilight zone...

@SW-User That episode is probably on YouTube.

@SW-User but the Borg have reformed are now the Guardians at the Gate of the Universe!
Star Trek nerd ....😀

@SW-User And to half the country (exact proportion varying by country) the latter would be way worse than the former 🥴

@Thinkerbell if you think about space has to be never ending.....and if this is the only planet where life developed that is one hell of a fluke.

@TheSirfurryanimalWales one could say God fucked up. Or this is a mere practice run😈

@TheSirfurryanimalWales

But we only know about the finite visible universe. We could never reach anything "outside," or even communicate with it, since that would require faster-than-light travel.

As to life being a fluke, that might very well be so.
The trouble is, we have only one datum, i.e., life on Earth. With only one datum, we have no idea how probable or improbable the formation of life is. If, for example, the odds are only one in a trillion, then it is unlikely we would find any other life in the our galaxy, since there probably are not more than a trillion planets potentially suitable for life within the Milky Way.

@Nimbus no, but it will be incorporated into the storyline.