Not Alone

There were too many clichéd stories that said that if Humanity ever found out it wasn’t alone in the galaxy, we’d regret it. Far too many bad (and, to be fair, good) movies showed aliens to be distrustful, warlike and out to destroy us.

So, like us, really.

The idea that aliens might wish us well, might help us, that had some play in stories too, but overall it seemed if Humanity found aliens out there, it would be bad.

But far too few people thought about how we’d react to finding them here, on Earth.

Poorly, it turned out.