Aliens make contact. Do you want humans to respond?

Respond but carefully. Send something mathematical, neutral. Test the waters before we get too chatty.

lol we can barely handle meeting new people on Earth 😅

Yes absolutely. This changes everything about our understanding of existence. We'd be idiots not to say hi.

Contact could go catastrophically wrong. Better to observe first, figure out their intentions.

Nope. We don't even have our act together here. Why invite them into this mess?