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If there was a major celestial discovery, how would/should it be announced?

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Vinsanity.

Member
I'm talking about something like the conclusive discovery of aliens or alien activity on earth, or the conclusive confirmation of an inhabited planet, or something else that is discovered of major proportions..

Just a simple press conference by NASA or whatever other space agency discovered it?
A joint address by leaders of multiple countries?
How should something like this be announced to the public? Should leaders of multiple countries have an emergency meeting of some sort to plan the announcement?

EDIT: This is a hypothetical that could happen 5-20-50 years in the future, so please don't turn this into a political thread about current leaders...
 
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chrisPjelly

Member
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Same layout, just with the picture of the actual celestial discovery
 
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ZoronMaro

Member
There was an undercover documentary about this called Men in Black.


Jokes and politics aside I don't think I'm being too tin foil hat here when I say that such a major discovery would be kept a secret.
 
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Phrozenflame500

Member
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Actual answer: it'll be through a NASA press conference unless actual diplomatic communications took place, then political leaders would announce it.
 
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Greigor The Fellhand

Member
The Discovery of an Ancient abandoned alien city in our system would not be talked about. THey would keep it secret to ensure that nasa/states get there first without worry of doing a dead sprint to beat other countries.

would be dope as shit though, dumping 10 trillion into nasa, think of hte advances
 
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curls

Wake up Sheeple, your boring insistence that Obama is not a lizardman from Atlantis is wearing on my patience 💤
Be honest. Dishonesty causes a fuckload of problems.
 
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Plum

Member
An elaborate E3-style press conference.

It starts off with a live orchestra playing Holst's Mars. The CEO of NASA then comes on stage, talks about how cool their spaceships are or something, and leaves. Cirque De Soleil comes in from the side to do a magnificently choreographed dance piece representing the universe. Meanwhile, the audience's light-up ponchos create a mosaic of stars and galaxies.

The lights dim. The Naughty Dog logo appears on screen and then...

"There be aliens."
 
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curls

Wake up Sheeple, your boring insistence that Obama is not a lizardman from Atlantis is wearing on my patience 💤
Vulcano's assistant said:
I believe it will leak like hell and then it will be addressed to confirm it rather than announce it.
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Nah just make the leakers look like a bunch of crackpots so nobody will believe them. Problem solved for 50 years. 👍
 
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qcf x2

Member
I'm growing more convinced we will never find anything out there. Too many things needed to go just right and even if we found a signal that we somehow could decode, clearly from an intelligent species, they would be long gone by the time we received it. I guess a ghost message would be "mind blowing" but eh... I don't think it's gonna happen brehs.

For all practical purposes we are the first and/or the last, it seems.

...but I guess that doesn't answer the question. It SHOULD be announced as soon as there is confirmation, immediately from whichever agency discovered it. That wouldn't be the case, though.
 
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Tuber

Member
Greigor The Fellhand said:
The Discovery of an Ancient abandoned alien city in our system would not be talked about. THey would keep it secret to ensure that nasa/states get there first without worry of doing a dead sprint to beat other countries.

would be dope as shit though, dumping 10 trillion into nasa, think of hte advances
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Kind of a cool scenario to imagine too, with the discovering agency or government(s) needing to get there and study it before anybody else, but also having to be subtle about it so they don't tip off everyone. You couldn't really just suddenly dump $700 billion into the military budget without- HEY WAIT A SECOND
 
DiscoJer

DiscoJer

Member
Honestly, if we haven't found anything by now, there probably isn't anything to find. (and this probably was true when Fermi proposed his paradox)

The only scenario I can think of would be some sort of alien probe or starship entering the solar system and that likely would be detected by people all over the world, amateurs and professionals alike.
 
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curls

Wake up Sheeple, your boring insistence that Obama is not a lizardman from Atlantis is wearing on my patience 💤
Get a famous astronaut to mention a monolith on Phobos? 🤔
 
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adj_noun

Member
The answer to Fermi that I like (aside from "yo, space be big") is that we're just not listening correctly. We're looking for vinyls and they're sending blu-rays.
 
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Neece

Member
The crazy thing is alien searches on pornhub would probably increase 100000% after the alien contact was announced.
 
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darklin0

Banned
NASA says they have an announcement at x date. On that date they say they have a press conference about the subject matter on a later date.
 
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Oozer3993

Member
NASA press conference. It will be preceded by everyone making "they're gonna announce aliens!" jokes on Twitter. It'll start with a NASA official acknowledging the jokes then blowing everyone's mind with the reveal. Then Twitter will go down.

Alternatively, like all huge news, it will be leaked by The Rock.
 
Subpar Spatula

Subpar Spatula

Banned
adj_noun said:
The answer to Fermi that I like (aside from "yo, space be big") is that we're just not listening correctly. We're looking for vinyls and they're sending blu-rays.
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unless super future reveals some brand new way of sendings shit faster, it's all meaningless. if you're advanced enough to start branching off into the solar system, galaxy, and live there then you're better off just putting giant blockers in front of stars to make a number repeat.

universal language, yo
 
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I_D

Member
qcf x2 said:
I'm growing more convinced we will never find anything out there.
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To save you some time, you can be 100% convinced of this fact.

If we're suuuuuuuuuper lucky, we might find evidence of bacterial life somewhere in our solar system.

Intelligent life, though? Not a chance. Even if the closest star had intelligent life, it would take longer than humans have existed to reach it.
 
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Aerogamer

Neo Member
Press conference. Also just a reminder that the first physical human contact with space was in 1957 with Sputnik, not that long ago at all. Were still at the point of conception with our interaction with space. I take a glass half full look into this, technology will advance, and no matter how smart you think you are, you wont be able to really predict where our knowledge can take us with any form of certainty. So I have hope we will learn much, much more.
 
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sphinx

the piano man
the problem, I think, is that it would take several decades (probably more than 100 years) to determine exactly what kind of intelligent life we have found

a sudden announcement of "hey!! we found aliens" is not really like it's going to happen.

the order of events could be:

.- have the kepler telescope found a VERY strong planet candidate for life
.- develop some cutting-edge technology to determine planet conditions from afar and have said technology letting you at least know, life is extremely likely there,so that it's worth it to
.- send a probe there, one that travels near light speed (this is were decades pass...)
.- hopefully the ship arrives there and THEN we get it back and then
.- NASA holds a conference to share the results..
 
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PixelatedBookake

Junior Member
If the aliens aren't some kind of abstract being made of smells, taste or whatever, a picture would probably be leaked online by a whistle-blower or some shit. People would freak out for awhile be eventually we won't care.
 
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tonysidaway

Member
Officially they're supposed to be developing an international post-detection policy governing what happens.

In practice, you'll hear about it on Twitter.
 
B

Blizzard

Banned
Twitter would be perfect. Diehard supporters would believe it and be mocked because it must obviously be fake. No one else would believe it so no one would panic.
 
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TheBowen

Sat alone in a boggy marsh
Simply via a news broadcast.
Im not a conspiricist but i would not be surpirsed if goverments hid it from us if it poses no immediate danger.
 
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Anth0ny

Member
announcement of an announcement, announcement 30 days before the event "THE BIGGEST ANNOUNCEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM", everyone is invited to the kodak theatre for the announcement itself, over 1 billion people watch the strim
 
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