If the reader has any lingering doubts about that assertion consider this: it is now possible, given the technology and access to information at our disposal, for a single person - or small group of people - to create and deploy a weapon of mass destruction.

Now think of an individual whose lifespan has been extended: by advanced medical technology, far beyond anything that we might reasonably expect - whose intelligence quotient far outstrips that of an X number of neurally networked quantum computers and who is a card carrying member of a society that has, perhaps, a billion year's worth of scientific achievement stashed away in its footlocker. Think of ET. How much destructive force could he - if he was that way inclined - bring to bear on any perceived enemy?

We can be sure about one thing when it comes to advanced alien civilizations – they have, long ago, forsworn war. The amount of power that such civilizations are able to invest in the individual members of those civilizations renders war obsolete.

So I'll say it again – we have nothing to fear from the extra-terrestrial.

I'll finish with some words of advice. If you ever find yourself facing a situation similar to the one I faced on that November night all those years ago – do not do what I did, do not run away – stand your ground and prepare for an experience that will change your life. Who knows? It might be your experience that changes all our lives.

First contact – bring it on.

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