system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Stargate]How would Disclosure play out?

What would be the Political, Social, Economic and Academic ramifications?
gpt
**Politically** it'd be the greatest disaster in contemporary politics and potentially of all time (at least on Earth after the Tau'ri revolted against Ra).

Bluntly, much of the Stargate program is *wildly* unconstitutional. Consider, for instance, all the treaties the SGC has signed with alien races (the Tok'ra, the Asgard, even the goddamn Goa'uld). The Presidents who have signed them have committed the USA (and *other* nations) to interplanetary entanglements without even consulting the Senate! And it's happened almost entirely outside of the State Department's supervision, too, since private military contractors like Daniel Jackson usually take point on negotiations. Every agreement the SGC and Atlantis has with another culture is illegal.

Then there are the off-world facilities. There are full-blown colonies like the Alpha Site, but also dozens of research stations on various planets and moons. Under what law do they operate? They aren't military facilities usually. They *should* be federal territories administered by Congress - but of course most of Congress has no idea they exist. That puts them in legal limbo since there is no court system to deal with crimes. It's more Wild West than the real Wild West.

And the USA's "allies" from Earth? While it was nice of the SGC to let the permanent members of the Security Council (UK, China, France) that the USA and Russia had been operating illegal space programs and dealing with aliens on behalf of humanity, it's still crazy illegal. And when China wanted to bring the program to light? General Hammond summons *Supreme* Commander Thor to basically scare the great nations into leaving America in charge. 

Then there are all the close calls that will come to light: Goa'uld infiltrating leaders to start nuclear wars, naquadah meteors, replicators, motherships, doppelgangers, crazy weeds, electrical computer virus entities, phasing bugs, etc.

Expect a wave of mass resignations, firings, and impeachments. 

**Economically** it will start the great period of growth in human history. Earth has the galaxy's largest human population by several orders of magnitude - most other "big" worlds don't seem to have more than several million people, and those that do (Langara maybe?) are behind Earth technologically.

And the SGC has hundreds of addresses to worlds rich in resources and uninhabited. Expect decades of mass migration to these empty planets. Whether they're setting up farm worlds to alleviate hunger, naquadah mining worlds to build Earth's new giant fleet of spaceships, or just letting letting people leave overcrowded cities, the Tau'ri population will explode in the following century. Earth will easily dominate the galaxy through economic growth.