/sci/ - Science & Math

what would, in all seriousness, happen to society if extra terrestrial life contacted earth?

obviously the idea of aliens coming down on a planet with volatile oxygen everywhere where perhaps their planet was a lot cooler/hotter/had a higher pressure atmosphere would never set foot on here, but if it happened, what would go down?

assassinations, mass hysteria, suicides? Would religion finally take a back seat to science and advancement instead of he other way around? Would we try and kill the aliens?