Andy McGrillin

The world you know has to dissolve.

It goes away.

You can't have Starbucks

in this world where you're dealing with intergalactic travel and we can't have a lot of the things that we've taken for granted as part of just normal society.

Because once you're exposed at a societal level to another civilization that has an alternative way of doing things, that's going to break people's brains.

They're just going to think, oh my God, they're going to question everything.

Is this the right way?

Should we be doing this?

Do we need a nuclear weapons stockpile that's this massive?

Do we need to spend $1.4 trillion a year on defense?

Those are the questions that are going to be really uncomfortable.

We have to rethink everything now.

I kind of just get the sense that perhaps the phrase, it's a pill that might be really hard to swallow, feels a bit more like we have to accept something that we previously thought was something else.

It's like something we think we know is absolutely not the case.

So if it's a religious aspect, maybe we find out

that god didn't create humans something like that i don't know maybe jesus didn't exist i don't know uh something like that and it feels like maybe i don't know if andy has an opinion on this but um finding out anything religiously related in the uk i think that would have a profoundly different effect here than it would in the u.s.

Yeah, remember the Family Guy episode from one of the early series?

And it's like Jesus or God comes down and tells us who was right and he goes it was the Buddhists.

Like, if there's an element to this where an NHI can come and say, yeah, a lot of that stuff was us, sorry.

You know, that's...