If aliens arrived tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d ask them?
If aliens arrived tomorrow, the first thing I would ask them is, “Why are you arriving now?”
Before asking where they came from, what they look like, or how they traveled across the universe, I would want to understand their timing. Out of all the possible moments in human history, why did they choose this one?
Maybe they have been watching us for a long time. Maybe something about humanity has finally caught their attention. Or maybe their arrival has nothing to do with us at all.
That first question would tell me a lot. I would want to understand what brought them here and what they know about us that we don’t know about them.
After that, I would probably have a thousand more questions. But I would start with the simplest one: Why now?
Until next time .
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