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Heh. Read the news lately?

. Religious Cults. If you look at the religiously inspired insanity in US Laws and Politics recently, coupled with what's going on in, say, Afganistan, I'd say "check".

. Doomsday preppers. Check.

. All sorts of irrational behaviors. Well, if you include enabling destructive climate change in the face of overwhelming evidence, I'd say Check.

It's almost like we read all those stories and said "Hold my Beer".

Or those stories based their plots on these real life scenarios dialed to an 11

Well, I just think they're neat

I suspect most people who'd find this information to be more than a novelty already genuinely believe in alien life anyway.

What use to them is confirmation from an entity they don't even trust?

Sure there will be a few people acting irrationally; such people already exist and act irrationally.

Most people will say “meh” unless it affects their daily lives.