A "post-detection" hub? Are these people for real? If intelligent life contacts humans, every country in the world is going to rush to open back channels with t

A "post-detection" hub? Are these people for real? If intelligent life contacts humans, every country in the world is going to rush to open back channels with them in the hope of gaining alliance and taking their help in getting a leg up over their neighbours here at home. It has happened before. It was called colonization.