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What do we do if SETI is successful?

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174 points leephillips | 2 comments | 20 Oct 25 17:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.416s | source
1. boznz ◴[20 Oct 25 18:52 UTC] No.45647689[source]▶
Humanity Needs Aliens to Survive => https://rodyne.com/?p=3051
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2. no_wizard ◴[21 Oct 25 19:30 UTC] No.45660535[source]▶
Though I feel this is fairly lazily written, it does have a basic premise I've seen before.

I read an article about post cold war US society. Basically, from 1989-2001 the United States was in a transition period that culminated with the first opportunity to seize on a "universal bad" (terrorism) because the USSR filled the role so readily for so long, US society was set adrift with partisan factions that couldn't find a common enemy to get behind in times of internal struggle.

That is the gist of the article, sub USSR for aliens and all of humanity for US society and you have the same basic outline