Exploration of space will result in?

I wonder how quickly the religious bandwagons will seize the opportunity - either to create rapid, new explanations of how the aliens are interpreted through relevant texts or to discredit their existence as some fabrication of the devil. Perhaps it would even bring about the end of organized religion.

Of course, as per a conversation held previously between markmcb and myself, the 'visitors' may equally be the originators of Earth life as an experiment, accident or intentional slave labor farming (reference X-Files). Could not their abilities actually attribute them to the very gods, prophets, miracles and legend that have spawned all modern religion? Now with an increased perspective and vantage point of science, it would be possible to identify that God was not an ethereal god at all - merely another species of life more advanced than our own by comparison.

I roomed with Mark McB in college*, and as far as I could tell from conversations with him when he wasn't washing the football team's jockstraps and mixing Gatorade in a big orange tub (at the same time?), his planet of origin is a place he called "Nerd School," where he was when normal high school humans were discovering the joys of autoeroticism and/or/while flunking Algebra II.

• New O-Nerd standard: when referring to West Point as "college" one must add an asterisk, e.g. "college*"

I voted for colonization of other solar systems - not because its any more or less likely than any of the others, but just because it'd be cool. Really cool.

Hey, why were at it I think we should extend the definition of terrorist to any extraterrestrial beings.

Did that Star-Wars project get canceled?

You will all be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

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