Aliens need a lot motime to find us

> From: Combs, Mike
> Are We Alone in the Galaxy? The View from the High Frontier
> http://members.aol.com/howiecombs/alone.htm

And a view from the peanut gallery:
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3aa.html
Scroll down half way to 'Killing Star':

When we put our heads together and tried to list everything we could say
with certainty about other civilizations, without having actually met them,
all that we knew boiled down to three simple laws of alien behavior:

1. THEIR SURVIVAL WILL BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN OUR SURVIVAL.
If an alien species has to choose between them and us, they won't choose us.
It is difficult to imagine a contrary case; species don't survive by being
self-sacrificing.

2. WIMPS DON'T BECOME TOP DOGS.
No species makes it to the top by being passive. The species in charge of
any given planet will be highly intelligent, alert, aggressive, and ruthless
when necessary.

3. THEY WILL ASSUME THAT THE FIRST TWO LAWS APPLY TO US.

For a moment, think of civilisations not as blasing beacons of hope and
knowledge, but as stealthy nuclear submarines, desperately trying to be
quiet, least they are detected first.

John