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Scientists Debate Humanity’s Response to Possible Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
(universalrecord.org)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
If you've read Lem's Fiasco, then that's the alternative scenario where "they" are the society lower technologically. It's very well written and tragic.
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(Spoiler alert - the command of "us" loses their minds from arrogance and misunderstanding the motives of "them", and the protagonist sent to the surface realizes what "they" are too late to signal that "they" shouldn't be nuked, the end.)So, Ender's Game