Seeing a lot of drone activity reporting online lately with people being unsure if it's alien technology or unknown human created drones from potentially other nations, etc. Figured I'd ask this question to get your thoughts and maybe think about something you may not usually think about.
This is kind of a difficult question. I want to make it clear that the question isn't meant as in "how would it change your life if aliens started doing stuff", but merely by confirming their existence and that they're capable of visiting our planet from wherever they're from.
The reason I deem this to be kind of a difficult question is because it crosses over another question I've been curious about the last few years. For that I'd have to openly state that I'm not a religious person per se, but I don't think I'm a full atheist, maybe leaning more towards agnostic. Since I don't think we can know or ever figure out if there is a "god" due to limitations placed by that deity I lean more towards the simulation theory and that this isn't our first rodeo.
Has this changed how I live my life? Not really. Take the simulation theory for instance, if this is only a simulation and everything we perceive to be real is only a "game" so to speak in the previous "realer" universe - which in and of itself may not be the base universe either - we can start to imagine that if our reality is simulated, that technology has to be quite superior to anything we know today. Even though our technology is evolving rapidly, we'd still be quite a few centuries away to potentially create another universe where we could digitally implement consciousness/brains so they could live life the way we do now. That means that if all this is truly simulated, can you imagine the data that must be tracking us? From every neuron of thoughts to every atom of actions we do is probably being tracked by our creators. This could mean that in the event if there is an "afterlife" so to speak where we'd simply "wake up" and be like "good game", we'd be able to look through our short life in this simulation either out of curiosity or research and look into every detail of it.
How many times you have coughed. How many hours you have slept. How much food have you digested. Or other more interesting crossroads based on decisions you made. How many times would you have died had you done y instead of x. How many times did you nearly miss becoming the next Elon Musk. When and where did your life change for the better/worse exactly and what were the events that unfolded that lead to it. You get my point.
Thus, knowing that there's a slight possibility of all that tracking, would that change the way you think about life and how you want that data to be filled?
I find that this is kind of similar to thinking if there's a more advanced alien life, they'd probably cast the same judgement on you that your peers outside of the simulation may looking at your data from your simulated life. In a way it's also a bit similar to some of the religions that people have belief in as they expect to always be "watched" and that their actions may lead to different paths at the "end".
So if we all suddenly became aware that there is other life out there and they know about us, have studied us and may at some point in the future intervene more directly - for better or worse - how would that change the way you'd continue living - if at all?