I'm not saying it's aliens...

I think we can all agree on the idea that within the next 100 years, more expansive ventures into the great unknown will be launched. Sooner or later, intelligent life will probably be found. Think about it. The Milky Way alone, one of the millions of galaxies in our universe, contains thousands of nebulae within it, and in each of those lie thousands of solar and extrasolar systems filled with stars and planets. If Earth formed into a planet with a environment suitable for carbon-based life, then certainly other hospitable planets could exist out in space. To claim that extraterrestrial life does not exist is to argue against logic. Anyway. If When we do meet alien life that doesn't try to kill us (or that we don't try to kill ourselves), I picture a sort of interplanetary commercial and governmental system to arise. Ideally, the aliens be treated as if they were humans, acting as a necessary asset to the well-being of human life, and vice versa. If we're lucky, they may even know other alien species, further expanding our reach of technology, commerce, and knowledge. Or maybe I've been playing too much Mass Effect.