One of the more amusing tales of science fiction is the one where the exploring earthlings, who believe that technological survival requires logic and logical beings can’t be warlike, run smack into an alien warship whose star troopers proceed to eviscerate them. (See Larry Niven’s warcats.)
Comes now a similar argument from New Scientist (“Hello ET, We Come In Peace”) that we need to pour more tax money into the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Why? Because we need to let any other cosmic civilizations know we’re around. (Like why should they care?) But is that so smart? We might just be inviting some really big trouble to come calling.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 