Okay, yes, I can see how that would go horribly wrong for us. It’s just that the existing literature on second contact modeling indexes heavily on parent-child or mentor-mentee relationships, and … that’s obviously not how PIs see us today.
If it’s any consolation, if an ancient alien intelligence capable of interstellar travel actually wanted to turn us into pets, I don’t think they need our prompting to do that.
@bethchen@dmitri, the window we’ve modeled for Scheherazade to most likely return is between t:L/384.1.0T16:00:13 and t:L/384.1.0T20:05:13. I need the docking bay clear and med team ready to go, just in case.