I have some issues with this story.

Being scared of the unknown is maybe one of the biggest perils we face, I argue.

Logically, the whole point of existing in a universe of unlimited possibilities is to learn.

That means a journey of continuously dealing with the unknown.

If we ever stop doing that, then our reasons to exist as a species disappear, surely.

Seeking certainty then is futile.

So we should embrace uncertainty and love it, because it is the reason we exist.

Certainty is the thing to be scared of.

That would be no different for any other extraterrestrial, intelligent species.

As would also apply to any hostile instinct they/we might have towards other species.

There appears an assumption in the story that we have progressed until now, and are still on a journey of progress.

I argue we are now on the decline.

We have seen our technical achievements peak, and start to recede.

Engineering icons exist because they represent our greatest ever achievements in aerospace.

Examples are the space shuttle, and supersonic flight for ordinary people; Concorde.

Neither exists any longer, only memories, still in those old enough to remember.

Now our space technology comprises rocket technology from the sixties reused; to throw shrapnel and sports cars into space, by profit driven gamblers with big money, whilst we continue to burn the stored energy of our planet, ignoring the primary energy that is the power of our sun.

To think that the same profit driven, colonial instinct that drives us to extinction as a species somehow applies to any other species, that might sucessfully develop to itself becoming extraterrestrial, is the sole reason why we think they might be hostile.

By that, we arrogantly project our own profit driven mindset onto them; the biggest mistake of all.

We are our own worst enemy, our own species, no other.

We have no chance whatsoever of survival as a species, until we see that ultimately, profit triumphs over all remaing life to rapid extinction, unless stopped.

Its antithesis is the energy of our sun.

But seemingly we can’t see it because when we try to point it out, on the only platforms that exist; profit driven, we are suppressed.