“What’s amusing is how some people trot out that “billions of light years away” strawman on almost every thread of this subject.”
Because they view the concept through the lens of our own limited knowledge. It is antiquated thinking that it takes months to send a letter to the other side of the world when it can now be done in a couple seconds by email.
It is time to realize man is not the smartest entity in this game...
That's the message that wives have been trying to get across since the Garden of Eden.;-)
But seriously, your point is probably one of the biggest shocks (or THE biggest) that is going to come out of this "disclosure."
Another one is something I heard last night (from the Ross Coulthart interview of Grusch) and that is that some of these "beings" seem to have malevolent intentions.