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But his idea, Peter Hawking's idea was he uses this sort of anthropomorphic idea of civilizations in space are going to behave much like us here on Earth. And if you look at our historical record, the more advanced civilizations here on Earth, technologically advanced civilizations here on Earth, when they come into less technologically advanced civilizations, we always have less technologically advanced civilizations because it tends to get the short end of the stick. And that was his concern, about sending these messages out, someone picks them up much more advanced than us, they trace them back here to Earth, and he said, you don't really know what their intentions are. I'm a bit more of an optimist on that, and I'd like to think or at least believe that something that, someone out there that's much more advanced than us, those intentions would probably not exist in the way they deal with each other and other species. But who really knows? It's dropping.