Potential cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-03

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00:01:44 1 Background
00:01:53 1.1 Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
00:05:14 1.2 Impact assessment
00:09:25 1.3 Post-detection protocols
00:13:53 2 Contact scenarios and considerations
00:15:13 2.1 Friendly civilizations
00:19:04 2.2 Hostile civilizations
00:22:56 2.3 Equally advanced and more advanced civilizations
00:27:46 2.4 Interstellar groups of civilizations
00:31:20 2.5 Extraterrestrial artifacts
00:35:48 3 Further implications of contact
00:35:58 3.1 Theological
00:39:18 3.2 Political
00:42:22 3.3 Legal
00:43:43 3.4 Scientific and technological
00:47:29 3.5 Ecological and biological-warfare impacts



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The cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact is the corpus of changes to terrestrial science, technology, religion, politics, and ecosystems resulting from contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. This concept is closely related to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), which attempts to locate intelligent life as opposed to analyzing the implications of contact with that life.
The potential changes from extraterrestrial contact could vary greatly in magnitude and type, based on the extraterrestrial civilization's level of technological advancement, degree of benevolence or malevolence, and level of mutual comprehension between itself and humanity. The medium through which humanity is contacted, be it electromagnetic radiation, direct physical interaction, extraterrestrial artefact, or otherwise, may also influence the results of contact. Incorporating these factors, various systems have been created to assess the implications of extraterrestrial contact.
The implications of extraterrestrial contact, particularly with a technologically superior civilization, have often been likened to the meeting of two vastly different human cultures on Earth, a historical precedent being the Columbian Exchange. Such meetings have generally led to the destruction of the civilization receiving contact (as opposed to the "contactor", which initiates contact), and therefore destruction of human civilization is a possible outcome. Extraterrestrial contact is also analogous to the numerous encounters between non-human native and invasive species occupying the same ecological niche. However, the absence of verified public contact to date means tragic consequences are still largely speculative.