Part of me wishes it was true. But part of me also knows that betteridge's law of headlines is as reliable as newton's laws of motion for everyday life.
Me too, on one level, but we should be careful what we wish for. If it was an alien solar sail, there's not much in earthly history of two cultures at different levels of advancement meeting that lends much hope for a long-term happy outcome of an intergalactic encounter.
Then at least we had in both cases humans for whom there is God that they will ultimately share similar cultures ("do not kill when not needed", "may share similar feelings",...)
With aliens this is a whole different perspective. I am personally not excited to find out how our worlds may or may not be compatible.
This may be the instance where it has been the most difficult for me to separate what we know from what I hope. The idea that it fit so much of the criteria for Rama probably locked many of us in to wanting to bend the narrative.
Me too, on one level, but we should be careful what we wish for. If it was an alien solar sail, there's not much in earthly history of two cultures at different levels of advancement meeting that lends much hope for a long-term happy outcome of an intergalactic encounter.