"We would actually be pretty upbeat about aliens"

Well, there is hope for humanity.

Hollywood has it wrong. Aliens are not ugly killing machines that are out to destroy the human race, at least we humans don't think so. Humans would actually react positively to news of alien life -- intelligent or microbial. This is a conclusion that Arizona State University Assistant Professor of Psychology Michael Varnum has come to.

What he actually said, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in held on Feb 16 in Austin, Texas, was ""If we came face to face with life outside of Earth, we would actually be pretty upbeat about it". This according to an article in Science Daily.

I like news like this one, gives me more hope for all of humanity.

In unpublished results presented at the conference, Varnum analyzed recent media coverage of the possibility that the interstellar Oumuamua asteroid might actually be a spaceship. Here too, he found evidence of more positive than negative emotions.

I simply LOVE this topic, but I know people look at me like I'm a weirdo when I talk about space. My favorite topic at the moment is the moon. To learn more about this strange object in the sky I use a program called "Lunar Phase Pro".

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