In x-files the tv show, at some point the plot turns out to be a deal between so the called aliens and "the elites" people in the know at the highest level of the gov/power. And the deal is basically "if you help us fuck the human race entirely, a couple of you will get a pass" Hence why everybody in the know is pretty much on board with the program, no choice. But well that's a tv-show. One day I was talking with a friend of mine about voyager, the space probe with everything on it, stuffs about our dna, the location of our solar system and our planet, and it keeps airing music and saying hello in every language if memory serve, via radio waves And my friend said something like "It's by far the dumbest idea in the world, ever. Imagine there was an hostile race, fucking everything on their path like locusts, pretty much like in independence day. And all the major/advanced races in the universe got fucked over, and they just didn't notice we were there, because we're in some remote corner of the universe and we got lucky, we started to develop after they came by long ago. And now we're giving away our position like big mongoloids..."