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[Barçauténtic !!HWTvwT+RzYG No.4216935]

Because it is so much easier to find gas giants (for obvious reasons: mass, size, etc.) than Earth sized planets, we can speculate that based on our own star system, and the many more we have found that wherever there is a planet there ought to be more. With that in mind, we may have already found star system(s) where other Earths may exist abundant in life much like our own Earth. Problem is that because of the much smaller mass and size or such planets, they are quite hard to detect with our current levels of technology. With that in mind, it is now but a matter of time before we can find another Earth exactly or much like our own. When we do finally discover another Earth, what then? How do you think that such a scientific discover will affect modern societies, its structures and cultures? Also, how perplexed would scientists and the world be if we were "found," or contacted by another world first? Would mass hysteria ensue? Would we finally abandon our pretentious ways and unite towards a common cause and eradicate such redundancies and irrelevant notions from our cultures that have since only served to hold progress back? Thoughts, /sci/?

[Physicsfag No.4216943]

Perhaps fear b/c the civilization contacting us is so far advanced compared to our own.

[Barçauténtic !!HWTvwT+RzYG No.4216969]

>>4216943

Not necessarily. It could be just as different as it could be similar. Heck, it could be more advanced than us in many ways, but still far behind in many more. This assumption that an alien civilization contacting humankind would be much more sophisticated than what we are now is not quite accurate because they could be exactly as we are now, a bit further behind but luckier in their enterprise to find alien life, or not that much further along. It would be quite funny to be found by a society of equal or mildly inferior technological standing. I think the fear borne out of such a finding would stem primarily from the religious folk of Earth as religion has yet to truly embrace the endless possibilities and plausible forms of life elsewhere. Those open-minded, educated, and curious would likely embrace the notion quite at the ready for it would only serve to propel our own civilization forward.

[Anonymous No.4216975]

nothing would change for the common man

[Anonymous No.4217644]

>>4216935
Hopefully it would stir an incentive to one day explore said world and its inhabitants

>Would we finally abandon our pretentious ways and unite towards a common cause and eradicate such redundancies and irrelevant notions from our cultures that have since only served to hold progress back?
No.