> You've been reading Greg Bear novels. I can tell.

Not true, my ideas are mostly my own, but if you recommend him then I
will read him.

> No.

It seems that, in the absence of further evidence, we will have to
agree to disagree.  I am an optimist and have faith in the idea that
we would be able to understand an alien civilisation and vice-versa,
they would be able to understand us, irrespective of which side is
superior in technology.