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‘(The Lord is speaking to the people) ... and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.' And when one day the first contacts with intelligences on other planets are made, we shall soon learn to understand one another in one language as in the time of the Tower of Babel. The 2,976 languages that are spoken on earth today can still be preserved as country dialects. But scholars from all countries and on all planets will exchange their knowledge in one language. But then our familiar and carefully preserved world picture will collapse and the younger generation of the space age will erase from its consciousness the last nationalistic feelings, which will have become meaningless. For that reason alone, I think, it is our duty to examine both apparently fantastic interpretations of traditional old texts and factual stone evidence with the greatest scientific care. Once we have absorbed all the messages left behind by the ‘gods’, flesh and blood encounters with astronauts from distant stars will lose their terror because we shall know that these beings have something in common with us: they, too, experienced the day of their creation at some point in time.