Re “Multiple maybes add up to one big “probably not,” so please don’t take any of this to heart.” - I’m one of those who prefer to see the glass half full rather than half empty, so to me multiple maybes add up yo one big “perhaps.”

I’ll watch again “The Forbidden Planet",” but also read again “Darwinia” with your speculations on technological resurrection. Hope is often naive, but still much better and healthier than despair. So let’s suspend disbelief in these benevolent aliens, let’s hope, and hope will give is the energy to perhaps do these things ourselves one day. Or die trying…