Scenarios about 'first contact'
The initial meeting between two previously isolated civilizations, cultures, or species, particularly in reference to encounters between humans and extraterrestrial intelligence. Throughout history, first contact scenarios between human societies have profoundly altered cultural trajectories through exchange of technologies, diseases, ideas, and resources. In alternate history and speculative fiction, first contact events serve as pivotal divergence points, exploring how different circumstances of such encounters might reshape human development or interspecies relations.
What If Extraterrestrial Life Was Discovered?
Exploring the alternate timeline where scientific evidence of extraterrestrial life is discovered, fundamentally altering humanity's understanding of our place in the universe and transforming numerous fields from science to religion.
What If SETI Received a Signal?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) detected an unambiguous signal from an alien civilization, fundamentally altering humanity's place in the cosmos and our technological, social, and philosophical development.