We have no context to our own humanity. Who says that civilizations only have a brief time before self-destruction?? That sound like some kind of post-pseudo-neo-Christian, milleniallism, end-of-the-world idea. Why would there be basicly, two types of contact?? The diversity of the oceans on earth point towards infinite variability of shape and psychology. I think that the diversity of the ocean-reefs will be at least matched by the diversity of a billion+ H2O planets in this Galaxy. Water planets will be common. Desert planets too.
The Ocean of space above us will have heard radio waves from our home planet by now out to a distance of 60 lightyears in every direction --> 10,000+ stars. Intersteller dust in some directions might start to break up the signal. Is it Lucky or Unlucky that space is clear around our neighbourhood here?? We are like a baby fish, signalling our immature vulnerability. I hope we have no listeners in the areas near Sol. Do we really want to make Contact when we are newborn in the cradle?? We have little defense. We are limited to one planet. I suggest that we use our only defense if we are visited. Nuke the visiters. They may withdraw if they were only curious. They may back off if they are predators. If they were harmless, then we have made a mistake, but we will be safe. Perhaps we can profit from the leftovers. We cannot be to cautious while we are still mewing like a newborn in our birth planet.
Nature is cruel. That is what our Mother Nature teaches us. Space is a place for the very strong. An ocean. Our first goal must be to get off this sitting duck planet, then reproduce ourselves on other planets. Desert planets like Luna and Mars, then probes and colony ships to unknown solar systems by the dozens. This is not science fiction speculation. It is nature, cruel and beautiful and wild.
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