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. . . and lots of members of the scientific community came out to confirm it, would you believe it?

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Anonymous

Depends on what kind if contact. Evidence of a megastructure? Maybe. Landing on Earth? No way!

Anonymous

A good policy: Never make a serious science comment on April 1, and never take as serious any science comment published or made on this date.

Anonymous

No, I'd wait for the second, and still be wary of any announcement on April 1 any year. Just can't trust the Press to not be pulling a prank on the world. Because, you see, they do, they have and they will again!

Anonymous

Let's imagine trying to explain aliens that they have to wait a day because today is the Lying Day and nobody will believe them even if they made a public appearance. What would they think of us? They are a super advanced civilization and their society probably grew out of petty lies a long time ago and now they've found a planet where nobody believe nobody else because of how dishonest we are. "Totally counterproductive." they would think. "Those guys are nuts! The folk from the purge planet have more rational society!"

Michael Chui

The idea that it would take less than 24 hours to get a ton of credible scientists to agree on something seems kinda ridiculous, honestly.

Anonymous

Aliens visiting the Earth (let alone even finding our Solar System) seems to be so unplausible given the size of the Milky Way and the physically plausible technologies that I wouldn't believe it immediately without overwhelming evidence regardless of the date of the announcement. The solution to the Fermi Paradox is the Rare Earth hypothesis and the primitiveness of the Drake equation covers a large amount of improbability of the intelligent, technological, space-fairing life visiting just us.