But they've not been able to prove it wasn't something else, and the sheer unlikelyness of it requires a bit more than them being fairly trustworthy. I'm a fairly honest guy and not prone to superstition, but if I said Jesus had just got a job at the local Tescos I doubt people would beleive me.
It would be nice, but surely if they were here and going to contact us then they would have. But then there is the problem that if its that advanced we wouldn't probably be able to reverse engineer it (seeing as its breaking the laws of physics, and you can't reverse engineer something without having some kind of framework to operate in it, and if you can't make assumptions like it uses the same physics as you then its impossible), not to mention the language barrier.
Not to mention accepting technology from an advanced species is a bad plan, especially if you start adopting it a lot. Suddenly become reliant on something you can't produce yourself and that comes from one source. Before you know it you've joined the Tau'va.
Knowledge is fine, but technology is not the thing you really want if you don't have anything equal to trade. Thats not assuming that the aliens haven't just come in a generation ship and are actually a few decades behind us anyway...
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