Yesterday, someone posted an article on the forums stating "We'll know if aliens exist in 2025!!". Apparently, the government is using an extremely high-power telescope to scan billions of stars, and we should know if anyone is out there when the data gets back in 2025.

Now here's my question:When we meet the aliens, intelligent or no, what will we do? Will we attempt to make peace, bringing the human race together in the process? Will we argue over who found the aliens, and forget about them? Or will we nuke 'em?

I hope it's that first one, but there's always the possibility that we'll find a hostile alien species. After all, can we really trust all aliens to be fun-loving, zen minded individuals, like me?

Or raging, rabid, homicidal barbarians that happen to be armed to the teeth with plasma weaponry?

We won't know until 2025...but until we are certain they're nice, I'm gonna be sleeping with my Cerebral Bore.