[Mistletoe]

For me it boils down to- would an advanced civilization beam out a very strong locating signal on purpose? They would have to be very certain they were the baddest strongest civilization in the galaxy. I can’t think of a way intelligence and that idea go together.

[friend_and_foe]

With one single data point, we presume that life is ubiquitous in the universe and that intelligent civilizations probably exist in more than one place, yet we assume that everyone else is scared to give away their position, even though we aren't. If we can presume intelligent life is out there even though up to now we only know of ourselves, why not presume that that life behaves like us in at least this one way? Seems paradoxical to assume differently, no?

[Mistletoe]

I don’t think we are that intelligent obviously. When I watch the news this is confirmed. And when we send out a “look here and come plunder” beacon it is confirmed as well. We just exited the campfire stage a hundred years ago or so. An alien civilization could be millions or billions of years ahead of us with weapons that we can’t even imagine.