Weird Sunday musings about aliens

[Rapidmama]

Say hypothetically the government knew aliens existed. Had actual proof. Would they tell us?

And if not, do they have the right to keep that kind of knowledge to themselves? I understand the need for state secrets etc but that kind of knowledge would be human knowledge, something which changes the whole way we view the universe we live in.

But I don’t think they’d tell us would they?

I have extensive knowledge in this area having seen many educative films on the topic. The government have a responsibility to tell us, but would patronisingly withhold the information because of our tendency to fall into a state of anarchy.

The best proof we don't have evidence of aliens is that Trump hasn't started tweeting about them since he was inaugorated. Can you believe for a moment that that blustering tangerine wouldn't be all "I know something amazing" about it? There'd be no stopping him.

Which does make me a bit disappointed, but hey ho.

I don’t agree we would fall into a state of anarchy though, not over aliens at least.

I can understand them not telling us if a fucking massive meteor was heading towards us with no chance of survival, there would be mass panic. But aliens? Not really much we can do if they aren’t actively on the planet

For a start all religions would immediately collapse, this would lead to massive unrest.

The PC brigade would be demanding an Alien rights charter.

There would be huge moral and ethical questions posed by the information.

If we held the Aliens captive, we would be in danger of attack, in any case we probably would be vulnerable to invasion by demonstrably superior beings.

I think the movie DISTRICT 9 is a very good illustration of what probably would happen if we did discover aliens.

dudsville
I have extensive knowledge in this area having seen many educative films on the topic. The government have a responsibility to tell us, but would patronisingly withhold the information because of our tendency to fall into a state of anarchy.
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I think you may be right.

I'll be seventy at the end of the year and when I was a child there was endless negative and often quite scary talk of aliens (like Martians in 'The War of the Worlds'), and Russians.

My back garden backed onto allotments, some of which were vacant and overgrown. I used to get up in the morning (and sometimes at night), and look out over the allotments, expecting to see a crater with a Martian space ship in it. Thankfully I knew no Russians :-).

Then there was 'Quatermass and the Pit', I think that was on TV on or around late 1959-early 1060. I only saw the first episode and that was enough for me, every week when that thing (I couldn't even say the name), was about to come on telly, I went up to bed with no trouble, which was unheard of. Unfortunately I could still hear the pounding theme music which floated up through the ceiling and the floorboards of my bedroom! It took me a long time to get over that. Hee hee, happy memories.

(I forgot to mention The Bomb and the film of Neville Shute's 'On the Beach'. I obviously didn't go to see the film, saw it years later on TV, but there was an excerpt on the radio which I heard. When the lovely young couple are about to take suicide pills to avoid radiation sickness, they have to give it to their baby too. Then they discuss the symptoms of radiation sickness.
Then came Bob Dylan....)

I think that they’d drip feed it to us
Bit by bit start ‘normalising’ the idea then ‘sudden’ discoveries would be made to support the idea. Rather than a big reveal - the general population wouldn’t cope

And as for trump the pp is right if he knew he’d go crazy on Twitter about it
So I don’t think anyone would tell him - plausible deniability