 December 11, 2020  Space. The final frontier. Somewhere out there in the vast unknowable cosmos, there might be life. And if we're to believe a retired Israeli general, life not only exists beyond our planet, it's come to visit in secret.
The story went viral earlier this week thanks to the former general claiming, among other things, that President Donald Trump had nearly accidentally revealed the existence of the aliens and their "Galactic Federation" to the world too early.
It's a fun, weird story but, Hayes Brown ponders in his latest essay, do we really want aliens to meet this version of humanity? It's probably better for them to keep on flying past our solar system, Brown argues — we've got a lot of work to do before they show up.
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