What If #2

What if there was life on other planets. The world as we know it would never be the same, especially if the other life forms were invading. The planet could be taken over and the human population could be wiped out or made into slaves. The aliens do not necessarily have to be invading; they could be coming to help us out. They might show us how to perfect fusion power so that we do not have to pollute the world. World religions would change overnight if a sighting occurred that nobody could denounce. Not only would current religions be affected, but new religions, cults, and other groups would appear. Everything you have ever thought would be challenged; the world would forever appear differently due to the new extraterrestrials. The repercussions of a stronger more advanced species coming to earth would be that all humans would look at each other differently. The borders and cultures that separated us would no longer be as apparent. The human population would either feel or actually be threatened; the will to survive would overcome the will to stay separated by race and culture. But no one can be sure of what we would really do because we have never been in that situation. It would be interesting to see how it would all turn out. If a superior technological alien race decided to attack our planet, how fast would we be able to counter attack and defend ourselves? Would we trust each other to give up our government’s secrets in order to better protect each other? When I think of different cases of this happening in fiction, I tend to think of Independence Day and Halo. Halo is different because the human population had already spread from earth. Independence Day took place during the current day and we had not moved from earth. The different nations had to join military power to take out the aliens and return earth back to normal.