[HandBasketHell]

This is going to be as useful as if the Indians developed a contact protocol for the Spanish Conquistadors. The side with the superior technology will wipe out the inferior side.

End of story.

And if any alien race has the technology to get to Earth from across the cosmos, they will regard us in the same way that we regard a flea. There will be no benevolent coexistence of species as depicted on Star Trek or Babylon 5.

[enraged]

We all assume that it has to be some fantastic technology. What if it turns out to be something simple we haven’t thought of yet? We would then be able to travel unimaginable distances with our other current technology. We might be just as smart besides that.