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First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don’t learn from history
When Christopher Columbus first came ashore in the Caribbean in 1492, he made first contact with what was, to him, an unfamiliar world. While his journey took place on ships rather than spacecraft, ...
Your phone buzzes with a breaking news alert: "Astronomers detect unusual signal from distant star system." Within hours, social media explodes with alien conspiracy theories, deepfake "evidence," and ...
People were allegedly advised to call the United Nations' "alien communications specialist" if they made contact with extraterrestrial life.
Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...
The truth is out there — and late President George H.W. Bush apparently knew it — telling a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at a secretive New Mexico air base in 1964, ...
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