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Imagine the day the aliens finally arrive.

Maybe you're picturing an invasion, ramps dramatically unfolding from gleaming ships,

snarling tentacled monsters slithering down, rapidly overrunning Earth's meager defenses.

And yeah, that's fair.

We're as likely to be unceremoniously fried into human crisps by a planet-wide death ray as anything else.

But this is seeing the alien arrival glass as half empty.

Instead, let's look at the glass as half full, even if we aren't sure yet what it's full of. Maybe aliens have figured out the answers to puzzles that

remain impenetrable to us, like what everything is made out of at the smallest level, or why

time only flows forward, or how big the universe is?

What if aliens know for a fact how our universe began and how it all might end?

What if they know what it's like inside a black hole or actually understand quantum

mechanics like the back of their tentacle?

Maybe to them the universe isn't a place of consistent mystery, but one that timely follows some basic rules.

And what if they could just tell us how everything works so we don't have to blindly hack away for decades or centuries to gain this elusive knowledge?

They might carry the product of millions or billions of years of alien scientific thought to catapult us unimaginably

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