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The notion of humans evangelizing extraterrestrials, or vice versa, has been a staple of science fiction for some time. IO9 recently shared<\/a> the above depiction of such a scene. What do you think would happen? How do you think the conversation would unfold?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"