We are naive to assume intelligent life necessarily has our values of humanity.
We may be attracting superior intelligent life with superior technology, only to find the hard way that they have all the compassion and empathy of a black widow spider or a great white shark.
Love that quote in your tagline, btw...
“They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards”- Gen Creighton William Abramsp
H$ll, the Democrats don't even have our values of humanity.
Until we learn to communicate with honey bees we can not expect to communicate with extraterrestrials.
We barely understand there is order to the colony. The colony is intelligent and makes decisions. We know that bees have races but don’t know if the different races have different languages.
Bees are here and now. Extraterrestrials may be also and we don’t know it