You have an optimistic bias , I think wouldnt one of these beacons also provide excellent lab test material to develop the perfect bioweapon or other massextinction technique against us ? Or let them practice surgical techniques aimed at making us controllable slaves ? But my main objection is more fundamental would an organism with our genotype but raised completely outside all of our cultural knowledge , social mores etc . still be what we would call human ? I think for intelligent beings , a species definition kindof has to include memetics as well as genetics . <| sep |> For me , it was the days leading up to Thanksgiving that were the hardest . The day itself . very vivid memories would pop up randomly throughout the day . us getting ready , us driving , us . us . us . So that sucked .