Discovering super-intelligent life - think of the possibilities! This is what scares me. The universe follows long time horizons. It's unlikely that we'd find

Discovering super-intelligent life - think of the possibilities! This is what scares me. The universe follows long time horizons. It's unlikely that we'd find someone just +/- 10,000 years of us. It would more likely be much more advanced, or much less. And if they were much more advanced, they'd find us first. And that rarely ends well for the less developed species. We eat cows, and have vaccines for bacteria.