11-March-2006, 04:07 PM
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We would never get the real truth !
I am sure everyone would agree that the government would never reveal the real truths and by government I would mean the government which had the most to do with discovering the advanced civilization even if it were a machine. There would be a stage act testifying that what they were saying was the entire truth but they would hold back what they could in the interest of their own government. If the discovery occurred in a third world country or some country that was academically backward then we would stand a better chance of getting the entire truth surrounding this machine or civilization but otherwise good luck! Humanities reaction would be controlled due to governments cloaking of truths but many would interpret the beginning of the end anyway!
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Originally Posted by snabald
Let's pretend that all of a sudden we had physical and undeniable proof that a civilization other than our own once existed.
For example we picked up a signal from a probe, upon further investigation it's a machine that is thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of years old, but contains technology similar, or slightly more advanced than out own bearing some kind of stored information about it's senders (similar to Voyager's golden record).
What would humanity's reaction be?
I'm sure depending on what sector of humanity you were talking about, the reaction would be different, for example there would be those who declare it a hoax, or refuse to accept it at all, and there would be those who say it a sign that "the end" may be near.
I'm sure over all it would be ground shaking and would all at once answer some of our most long standing questions, but over all how would it change things? What would be "the church's" stance, the government's, the average Joe?
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