What the hey. I've been avoiding ATM for a while now. This seems like a reasonable place to spray my personal brand of apathy around...

I have to side with the "What's it matter?" crowd. Even if there were ETs walking around Earth as we speak, who cares? Are they doing anything to us? Not likely. If they could get here, and mix in with us, then there's no reason to think they're plotting anything diabolical. They could just as easily whipe us out in the blink of an eye. At the very least, there'd be no path of causation for anything. Something would just happen, and no one would be able to trace it back to its source. If they're doing things FOR us, again, what do we care? Obviously, they don't want to be noticed.

If they're not here, then there're nowhere near here. In that case, we can't talk to them, and their discovery becomes a matter of trivial excitement and interest. Sure, it'd be cool, and would probably have some sort of deep spiritual impact on some (call it validation, if you will), and create a whole new breed of HBs (bitter, "my world view's been torn to shreds" types), but ultimately it would have no direct or immediate impact on our everyday lives. It would just be another cool discovery in our vast search for cool things in the universe. More knowledge for the history and science texts.

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