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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: 0.204s | source
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skc ◴[21 Oct 25 20:04 UTC] No.45660974[source]▶
If SETI is successful it would be a fascinating to sit back and observe the deeply religious.
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1. jandrese ◴[21 Oct 25 20:50 UTC] No.45661523[source]▶
It would depend a lot on what the alien species was like.

If they go "oh yeah Religion, that's a quirk of your biology, don't worry you will outgrow it in time" then yeah, that's problematic.

If they go "Oh, you say that the savior Jesus Christ was a human? That answers one of our biggest questions. The story never made much sense before. Boy, those Angels must be pretty freaky looking for you then." then that's entirely different.