When we meet aliens, it won’t be a friendly encounter or a conquest: it will be a gold rush. Can we make sure it’s ethical?

There are two forms the discovery of alien life could realistically take, neither of them a culture clash between civilizations. The first is finding a ‘bio signature’ of let’s say oxygen, inside the atmosphere of an exoplanet, created by means of lifestyles at the exoplanet’s surface. This sort of long-distance discovery of alien lifestyles, which astronomers are already scanning for, is the most possibly touch state of affairs, because it doesn’t require us going everywhere, or even sending a robotic. However its consequences could be merely theoretical. At long last we’ll know we’re now not alone, however that’s approximately it. We won’t be capable of establish touch, lots much less meet our opposite numbers – for a completely long time, if ever. We’d reboot scientific, philosophical and spiritual debates approximately how we healthy into a biologically wealthy universe, and complicate our intellectual and moral stances in formerly unimaginable approaches. However any moral questions could issue only us and our place inside the Universe.

~Ashley