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If tomorrow it was announced that aliens were real, highly intelligent, and in communication with our governments, no one would be talking about it by Halloween (slrpnk.net)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Seriously, I doubt it would even take that long. We get used to shit so quickly, and the news cycles have to keep feeding us new things, the only way we'd keep talking about the aliens if they kept doing new and interesting things. I'd be willing to bet a year later there would be some people who straight up forgot about it. "Oh yeah, aliens! Are they gonna, like, visit at some point or just keep exchanging calls with the Whitehouse?"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Within a month, corporations would try to monetize the aliens somehow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh, wow, you’re totally gonna love Star Trek when you finally see all 58 years of the shows and films. Then there’s Dr. Who and Star Wars…

Sci-fi has been a very profitable genre for at least 60 years. Arguably over 150. From Jules Verne to Gene Roddenberry to George Lucas and Russel T Davies, the imagination of humanity has been ignited— even stoked to wildfire - by these visionaries.

And they’ve existed and continued far beyond the realm of simple profit, as many times, they weren’t profitable. Yet they endure.

Ad astra per aspera— through adversity, we reach for the stars.