Thanks for cross-posting. This is an area (because it rubs shoulders with religion hard) where there's divide in the Bitcoin tribe.

Read ancient literature and you'll find commonalities between the way people then spoke about "the gods" and the way they speak now about "aliens." I think at this point — and especially given recent 2020-related events — it would be trivially easy to reboot ancient religion centered on "extra-terrestrials," which, interestingly, is a term broad enough to cover both the old and new version.

If that happened, it would cause me truly unprecedented levels of painful cringe. I hope people would never believe such an obvious thing, but then I think back to the 😷 incident...