There's a malthusian philosophy in science fiction now called e dark forest hypothesis, that every human species, like bacterion, n t run out of room. No, the universe is infinite in size. It's expanding. We are at the beginning of infinity. Everybody's craving idea. Smart alien civilizations trade ideas. And successful civilizations trade ideas because those ideas take things that were useless before and turn them into resources. Every alien civilization can trade ideas with every other civilization, ideas because they 're all universal explainers. They 're capable of maximam understanding. So if we encounter an alien species, we should probably rejoice. They probably don't want anything from our planet other