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Another thing that happens in nature is that when a species is able to extend its range into other environmental niches there are going to be encounters with other species that are only begrudgingly going to make room for the invading species. In order to survive the invading species must rapidly and effectively adjust its strategies of competition and cooperation as do the invaded species. It's a fact that ETI activity on and around earth jumped many fold corresponding with advances in rocket science in the late 1940's and 1950's and was first concentrated in areas where rockets and atomic bombs were being designed and tested. When we left earth and entered space we broke out of one environmental niche into a larger one and became a invading species. Those that occupied that larger niche responded quickly so as to adapt to our intrusion. In this situation we as the invading species are at a disadvantage because this larger environmental niche is already filled with intelligence more technologically advanced who seem willing to allow us access to this greater reality but on terms that they can easily dictate. In a situation like this it inadvisable to attempt competition strategies lest it attract enemies, rather I suggest cooperative strategies are in order. In the late 40's and 50's our leaders had poor situational awareness as could be expected and so they reacted with hostile competitive strategies rather than cooperative ones in an attempt to bully their way into this larger niche just as happened during the European voyages of discovery. For better or worse this time the situation is reversed and the larger environment niche is not occupied by primitive peoples as was the case previously in our history. Now its time to face the music, reverse course, confess and seek forgiveness and seek good relations with those out there who would do us no harm and sever all relations with those who would do us harm. As in the 1940's and 1950's I believe we again are at a evolutionary crossroads. We have a second chance to achieve a bright evolutionary future. Lets get it right this time else we either are colonized by predatory alien races or fall back into our preexisting environmental niche because of widespread conflicts and environmental degradation brought about by a failure to adapt to the environmental challenges on the space frontier. Prelude To Invasion In the time of European voyages of discovery and conquest it is widely believed that superior technology and disease were the main factors in enabling the Europeans to conquer and subjugate the rest of the world. Personally I think the lack or conceptual or situational awareness was the most significant factor. If the less technological peoples had understood their precarious position soon enough when they had the capacity to repel the earliest settlements then they could have used the time gained to better organize and adapt to the European intrusions. Japan would seem to have been an exception. They got it right, resisted and limited the intrusion to small bases from which they could develop the situational awareness and weaponry that they needed to keep the Europeans at bay. Surely this historic example has not been lost on exopolitical military strategists. 46