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What do we do if SETI is successful?

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174 points leephillips | 1 comments | 20 Oct 25 17:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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Simulacra ◴[21 Oct 25 19:16 UTC] No.45660321[source]▶
Isn't that what the movie Contact was about?

In all seriousness, I think if we did receive something, it would be classified immediately, and the government, or governments, will move very swiftly with a heavy hand to silence the discovery. At the very least until they know exactly what it is, what it is conveying, and how to respond.

That said, I think that if it got out, a lot of people would absolutely lose their snot. Completely. It would be chaos in some places.

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1. whiplash451 ◴[21 Oct 25 19:34 UTC] No.45660591[source]▶
People would simply not believe it. I don’t think there is world where aliens messaging is taken seriously on earth (at scale). People would attribute it to the military.