What Would You Do If We Found Aliens?

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Will humans ever make contact with an advanced alien civilization?
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▼ The quest to identify UFOsand even find intelligent life on other worlds has been heating up for decades ... to no avail. But there are still plenty of spots and wavelengths where aliens could be hiding. So, what would humans do if we found concrete evidence that we are not alone in the universe? Turns out, there's no real plan  for how humanity would respond, let alone how we would deal with such a monumental discovery.
The U.K. SETI Research Network (UKSRN) wants to change that by asking Earthlings their views on the search for aliens and how they'd react to a discovery. The network announced the survey, which it said is the largest such survey to date, yesterday (July 1) during the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition, according to The Guardian.
The online survey includes questions such as:undefined
If we discover a signal from extraterrestrial intelligence, would you:undefined
— Not care much about it?
— Just follow the news, comment?
— Interact on social media about this topic?
And this one: Some people think we should send messages into space even if we don't receive a message first. What is your opinion?
— This is a bad idea. We should ban people from sending messages.
— There should be rules or laws about who can send messages and what they can say.
— Anybody who wants to send a message into space should be allowed to do so.
So, what are the odds we'd really need answers to these questions? To date, a lot of effort and money have gone into listening for alien signals. For instance, Breakthrough Listen's team at the University of California, Berkeley's SETI Research Center released 1  million gigabytes of datarelated to such a quest. The scientists had looked for anomalous pings in both radio and optical wavelengths emitted by 1,327 star systems. The result? None of those signals could be traced to anything other than human sources. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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ssangra

We are the aliens..what are we scared of?

Jbnast

With the vastness of space it is hard to state that we are the only living life forms in the universe. There is likely life in some other form somewhere in the Universe. Whether it is able to communicate with us will still have to be expored.

Rhett_Bassard

If we find aliens, I'm asking them to take over or take me away.
H. sapiens are heading to endgame.

Pedro_P

I think that extraterrestrials (intelligent), what they are least looking for, is to have contact with us, the humans... They try to avoid us, they know we could contaminate them, corrupt them.
They most certainly see us, the humans, just as we see ants, that is, aliens look at us as if we were primitive, cave-dwelling beings...

asr335704

Wow, that is some question now.

If I find some alien, definitely I would try to avoid that alien.

As a human, you know if we don't know anything about someone, we tend to be suspicious towards him/her or stay away from him/her.