> There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the source code has been on display at your local galactic version control system in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years...
Not really, but I know which bit you mean: "It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying “Beware of The Leopard“"
I suddenly want to read a SciFi novel about a lawyer dispatched to Alpha Centauri as first contact to establish that the radio signals emanating from their planet infringe on Got to Give it Up by Marvin Gaye. Hey, if Snowpiercer can get a Netflix series then this is a slam-dunk for green lighting - let's serialize this while we're at it!
Year Zero: A Novel by Rob Reid is one where the entire galaxy got hooked on listening to our pop music that's been transmitting this whole time and how Earth is now owed insane amounts of money due to copyright.
We steal genes from fungi without rewarding them for their work, and do you know what they do to silk worms? Why should advanced aliens treat us any better?
It's alright - the Trans-Galactic Partnership Treaty has been confirmed and all the signatories agreed to unilaterally include all unsigned lifeforms in the Galaxy. Honestly if these folks wanted a better deal they should've come to the table.
The problem is the IMF can't get them anything. At the speed of light they can't even ask us to send anything, they and us are at the mercy of what the other chooses to send.
Hmm, what about systems with just single star type object or more than two ? Sure, there migh be more binary star systems in the galaxy than the others but it still seems like a significant unaddressed edge case.
