We Can Protect Ourself From the Hostile Reality That's Out There

We may not be alone in the entire universe. We might yet discover that we share the a environment with others. But we do not know about them yet. Whoever they are, and whatever they might be, we can constrain some of their properties. They cannot transgress the laws of physics. And if they are capable of creating a civilization, then they possess one very special property that we do. The ability to uncover those physical laws that govern them as much as us and the the universe. So they, like we, can form ideas, especially in the form of technology,. which make clever use of those laws to control the matter and energy within the universe so that we can do good work