Feels like you got beef with rotten tomatos. They are trash for sure but this feels personal.

The golden record is very simple and if thet can't decode it we don't want them we have enough unintelligent life on this planet as is. We don't need our hillbilly neighbors as pen pals or worse visiting. We want some smart, pretty, Grey's or some ripped, intelligent, alpha draconians.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

If a civilization is advanced enough to manipulate black holes like they are tinker toys and are perceiving a dimension even one higher then the one we can their abilities would seem God like. Notice the capital G.

My grandmother read this book to me as a child she read to me way past what is normal lol age wise. We would revisit some books together but this one she said she would never read again and we never did it was so gut wrenchingingly real and so expressive it hurt to relive that pain. She read to me till she died. Less and less for sure as I bacme an adult and we would hit Where the Red Fern Groes once more. We never gave this one another read once was enough.