[marcosdumay]

Probably, nothing changes untill we start communicating with them, what may take a while. If we start feeling less significant, well, list that in the benefits... But I doubt it'll happen.

Rationaly, we should start looking hard for the explanation to Fermi's Paradox. Since it's not in our past, it must be in our future, what's very bad. But we are not rational, so we probably won't.

[codeboost]

So we meet the aliens, we communicate with them, we become friends, they share a bunch of technological discoveries with us.. Then what ? We travel some more ?

If we can travel parsecs to meet them, wouldn't we be supremely technologicall advanced ?

I mean, the human race is pretty technologically advanced today, too advanced actually and it's hurting us as much as it's helping.

Will we some day realise that it is of no use to pursue higher mountains or more distant stars, because at the end we're still stuck within ourselves ?

What if the supremely advanced aliens realised this a long time ago and renounced technology all together, because it ended up destroying them ?

I wonder..

[repnescasb]

Renouncing technology you say... Also Medicine? If not so, overpopulation would soon become a problem and if by then they still don't know how to colonize further into space they face a serious problem.