An interesting speculation, I will admit, even encouraging, that SETI or UFO’s or something will pop up soon to save our skins–or hang them out to dry!

It is not clear to me that huge advances in science, technology and knowledge, together with higher intelligence, would result in a more kindly race of supermen.
We have examples of just the opposite from our own past.

My belief is based mainly on the Drake Equation about extraterrestial life. Does that equation have any scientific validity? Since Dr. Drake wrote that equation before the discovery of extra solar planets, it would seem to me that it needs revising - with the probabilty of intelligent life more possible.

Of course, until we can honestly say the prospects of life outside our earth is possible, we can’t say for sure that life is not exclusive to earth - in a scientific sense. But if we find evidence of life - past or present - on Mars or Europa or even Titan, I would think the prospects for intelligent life would skyrocket - if only because intelligence is an answer to an evolutionary problem and given enough time, some species will hit on it.

Or, the idea of infinite numbers of parallel universes, each one a slight variation of its neighbors, connected to us by some kind of warp in space, even a black hole, is only flawed by Hawkin’s statement that we could never communicate with any of them, much less pass over physically into another universe. Was he worried about antimatter at the interface?

Then, of course, “it must be so” that an advanced civilization could have solved the problem of travel in multiverses, which is a considerable speculation, is it not?

I do love science fiction!