It would be very bad news. The only news worse than that would be the discovery that a ten mile in diameter comet will crash into the Earth one year from now with the force of billions of atomic bombs. We would all suffer a very slow and horrible death, much of it being the psychological terror. But You are by virtue of the fact that the alien takeover is not true. Obviously, no bad aliens have found us yet, or we might already be just a wispy layer of soot all over the planet.
Planet Earth is on a collision course with a comet.
Present level of technology and the survival instincts are too powerful not to do something about it. The aftermath of that something is . Despite everything, indications are that planet Earth is surging to become a powerhouse, a Superworld to join the leagues of Superworlds evolving throughout the universe. Then we get to share the cookies. There are no limits.