NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth

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6. Probably never.

Our species is too aggressive to use its resources for only beneficial knowledge. We use most of them for implements of war. We achieved self-annihilating capacities long before we reached the wisdom not to use them on ourselves. I can't remember if it was Carl Sagan or some other noted astronomer who said once that intelligent aliens contacting us would most likely be benevolent. Space exploration used up a lot of resources and a species that used such resources to further science over war most likely was benign.