Advancing Space Technology and Preparing to Meet Aliens Through Multilateralism

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Due to restrictions on HN's title length, I had to botch the article title, I am sorry for that. The actual title is:

Advancing Space Technology and Preparing for Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence through Multilateralism

Basically, the article says that we can be viewed as a dangerous species by other interstellar species, and therefore contained in a "Solar system zoo".

Sounds like the Three Body Problem book saga

Yes but with a reverse perspective, in "Three body problem" the villains are the aliens, and here it's us. Or it's a question of point of view, after all, Trisolaris sees us as "bugs" in the novel.

I grant this "zoo hypothesis" is old, with many variations like those of Charles Ford or 1939' "Sinister Barrier" of Eric Frank Russel:

This book frightens me every time I re-read it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinister_Barrier

I subscribe to the idea that “they” are already here, and have been watching us for ten thousand years.

They see all that we are and all that we do. Given such circumstance, what do you think might be made of us, and our pathological lies we tell ourselves of our better nature?

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