What would you think if definitive proof of alien life emerged? Would it consign all religious thought to, as Mark Twain once predicted, the fate of a stuffed ornament in museums? How would suggestive confirmation of the principles of uniformity and plenitude - that if life can form on Earth it can form anywhere and thus will for everywhere - mix with confirmation of the principle of mediocrity (nothing special about humans)? Would mediocrity impact humans relation with technology and would plenitude turn science skyward?
Disclosure Day (2026), Spielberg: https://youtu.be/icDuEHSxE-w?si=jKBowVzx1K6IggNh
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Heard mixed things about the film itself. More so in the final act it gets a bit ahead of itself.
Still to me, Spielberg's masterpiece is Jaws.
There's already a lot of scientific evidence to suggest that we do not have any imaginary friends, so more evidence won't make any difference to the people of faith.
It is an interesting thing to think about however, life elsewhere in the universe. I believe it's out there for sure, but how much complex life is out there is the real question. I don't think humans are mediocre, I think we are uniquie and similarly complex lifeforms very rare. If a superior and vastly more technologically advanced race of being were out there as some imagine, it would be logical that they would be aware of us. I don't think therefore that such superiority exists, to that level at least.
But good luck Elon.