If alien life was discovered how long would it be before it is ignored just like the life on Earth?

Not sure what you are trying to say. Unless you are typical post modern Nihilist who thinks that “everything is bullshit, so fuck it”.

I was not aware that exploring the nature of life on Earth had become boring to the countless Biologists who enthusiastically explore and study everyday.

And if extraterrestrial life was discovered, I could not imaging the stampede of biologists as they flocked to the source to study it. In fact, it would resurrect the entire field of Biology as we know it. And secretly you know it too.

@josie Just wondering If I was not giving credit to scientists and discoveries when I was in grade school. I was also wondering if I or someone discovered something would the next generation care, (I would just be another question on a test in a mandatory class that few appreciate. I poo pooed, APA and MLA formatting because I didn’t care and I found that not giving credit where credit is due, just because I found it aggravating trying to understand both formats, perhaps I should have given credit to forgotten scientists and scholars who never get so much as a thank you.

@talljasperman

Then, never mind.

Gods and mushrooms. Both probably alien life. Go figure that mushrooms get more attention and respect than Gods these days.

A “generation” is just a group of people who were born at around the same time- like within the same 10 or 15 years. There isn’t so much in common with such a large and diverse group of people that it makes sense to assume that they will all think about something in the same way. What they do have in common is that shared time-binding.
For example, rock-and-roll has been around longer than I have. It’s been part of my whole life. There’s never been much surprising or strange about it, because I’ve never known a world without it. Punk rock happened when I was a young kid, and it changed my world when it hit. If I’d grown up with it, it probably would be just another genre of music.
Today I’m blown away by graphene and its properties. If I was born 20 years from now, graphene would probably be just another material to me, and not something as magical as fiberglass would have seemed to engineers 100 years ago.
But 100 years from now, engineers and people who care about the history of science and curators and other folks will still care about graphene. Discoveries never completely fade away.
Old or new, whatever you personally care about is probably something the majority of other people don’t care about or even know of. There are lots of people, and there’s lots of stuff to know.

When does the next news cycle start? Tomorrow morning? Well then, there you go.

Evolution was discovered 150 years ago and it’s still not boring. Interesting discoveries stay interesting for a long time.

after we are assimulated we won’t know anything more.

However long it takes for humans to work out how to exploit their planet for profit.