{"id":71472,"date":"2017-08-01T15:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T22:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/what-happens-next-if-we-find-proof-of-space-aliens"},"modified":"2017-08-04T11:03:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T18:03:17","slug":"what-happens-next-if-we-find-proof-of-space-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/what-happens-next-if-we-find-proof-of-space-aliens","title":{"rendered":"What happens next if we find proof of space aliens?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-happens-next-if-we-find-proof-of-space-aliens2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This brisk cadence of celestial surprises might make it seem that we\u2019re on the cusp of proving the existence of extraterrestrials. But just because the crow\u2019s nest announces clouds on the horizon doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re close to land.<\/p>\n<p>These three claims purporting to show the existence of aliens haven\u2019t panned out. But what happens if some future claim does? What preparations are in place to deal with the discovery of a radio signal or a laser flash that would prove beyond doubt that we have cosmic compeers? Does the government have a plan? Does anyone?<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people think there is a plan. A secret one. A <a href=\"https:\/\/yougov.co.uk\/news\/2015\/09\/24\/you-are-not-alone-most-people-believe-aliens-exist\/\">recent survey<\/a> indicated that 55 percent of the population figure that the discovery of extraterrestrials would be squelched \u2014 deep-sixed to prevent widespread panic. Only 19 percent believe the feds would fess up to E.T.\u2019s existence.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/what-happens-next-if-we-find-proof-space-aliens-ncna788511?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_mc\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/what-happens-next-if-we...d_nn_fb_mc<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This brisk cadence of celestial surprises might make it seem that we\u2019re on the cusp of proving the existence of extraterrestrials. But just because the crow\u2019s nest announces clouds on the horizon doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re close to land. These three claims purporting to show the existence of aliens haven\u2019t panned out. But what happens if [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71695,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71472\/revisions\/71695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}