The Importance of First Contact With Extraterrestrials

Stephen Hawking warned about this of course he said when we encounter extraterrestrials it might be similar to when the European explorers encountered the Native Americans. Probably not a good idea but again in relation to the second part of your question how might first contact go with them. We're interested in society the structure of society political structures you know is when we you know anthropologists encounter indigenous people they there are some societies still that are tribal and hunter-gatherers maybe without a written language. But what makes it interesting and potentially important well maybe when they do two things when they develop atomic power and harness that and when they develop rocket technology if you put the two of those things together it might sound