Reply #153: Maybe not but then would aliens consider humanity intelligent enough

[Shallah Kali]

to do more than observe us the way we observe merkats and other critters? What if they tried contacting us using technology beyond our best scientists as beyond smoke signals as television broadcasts are and since we could not understand they look on us the way we look at parrots and maybe chimps who learn sign language? If we strike them as not as intelligent as their offspring why bother to contact us any more than an ambassador would sit down and try to make an alliance with the merkats for trade and exchange of ideas.