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I equate this to a Christian asking a non-believer "What will you do when the son of God returns and carries all the believers back to heaven with him, leaving the rest of you to pick up the scraps and eventually die a misserable, eternal death? Will this event change your thoughts about evolution and/or ET?"
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Yeah, like
THAT would ever happen!
But you're right it is just a silly question, but though it seems silly it can spawn pretty serious contemplation, as witnessed by this thread.
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As for it being devastating to human kind, why is that? It might just be the kick up the backside we need to finally realise that we're all pretty much the same.
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Well we've lived a pretty arrogant life for thousands of years thinking we are the only life in the universe. Here we are the almighty human race meeting other beings from who knows where, don't you think it would make us feel pretty insignificant? Which brings up another point, how do you think society as a whole would treat them if they are in fact friendly, yet superior, beings? I would love to think that the world would embrace them and whatever they want to share with us, but another part of me thinks that (like usual) we would try to kill them. I seriously think it would be the most defining moment of humankind. Man, do I sound like a total nut or what?
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Religion will stand up under any kind of pressure, if it didn't, it would have died out long ago.
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I guess I hadn't been thinking of past pressure put on the church. Most astronomers were making the bad list all through ancient times through the middle ages: discovering that the Earth was not the center of the universe, that the Earth is in fact not flat, etc. But nothing has even come close to idea of alien contact with Earth, that event would eclipse all others before it.