(((I love it when science fiction writers talk perfect good sense about eventualities that have never happened and may never ever happen.)))
http://futurismic.com/2008/07/03/why-nancy-kress-has-gone-to-the-dogs/#more-3559
Link: Why Nancy Kress has gone to the Dogs | Interviews | Futurismic.
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PGR: How do you think we would react as a species to a sudden resolution of the Fermi Paradox, in the form of an unambiguous signal or sign of live from another civilisation?
Nancy Kress: The reactions, it seems to me, would be as varied as human beings. There would be no “reaction as a species.” Instead, various people (some of them influential political leaders) might feel: joy, fear, shock & awe, anger (“Get out! It’s our planet!”), expediency (“What have they got that we can trade for?”), caution, curiosity, proof of God, proof of no God, xenophobia, xenophilia, panic, the missionary impulse, inferiority, and the desire to pass more laws.
