if extraterrestrial life comes to visit in my lifetime, i only hope that they too understand the idea of peace and conflict, of love and hate, and they realise how counterproductive the latter stuff is.
voyager one has long since left the heliosphere - the wakewater of our solar system in the galactic sea - and i can only hope that little message in a bottle gets to someone who understands those concepts and falls in love with the human race as we have done the stars