According to some scientists, we may be tempting fate in our efforts to find other intelligent life in the universe. All the metaphorical jumping up and down and hand waving we’re doing on the radio spectrum may attract the attention of an interstellar Big Bad. Could be aliens. Could be planet-killing robotic berserkers. Could be fake instructions for a warp drive that turns out to be some kind of mass mind control device.
The Supreme Prefect of the Great and Everlasting Zarl Empire had a good chuckle when I showed it the article. It waved its articulated forelimbs in mock terror and said something like, “Oooh, we better stop or the evil, genocidal alien conqueror will come for us!” It launched some more and told me to get back to work on those plans for the slave camps or it would personally come down from the mothership and impregnate me.
