Scientists Contemplate Alien Contact
How would today’s sophisticated Internet Era human population react to an encounter with a more technologically advanced civilization? ”One such encounter occurred during the 19th century,’ observed Liu Cixin, China’s foremost science fiction author and philosopher of first contact, “when the ‘Middle Kingdom’ of China, around which all of Asia had once revolved, looked out to sea and saw the ships of Europe’s seafaring empires, whose ensuing invasion triggered a loss in status for China comparable to the fall of Rome.”
Very interested in this subject. Reading everything I can find on the beginning of the universe.