Initially I did a spit take because it just seems so silly, just preposterous. But on second thought Seth Abramson is not a jokester he's a pretty serious researcher so let's wait and see but could this be the beginning of alien apocalypse dystopia blah blah blah.....??
oh give me a break, if they're here they're not gonna let a bunch of capitalist apes paw around with their tech, they would literally levitate the entire base a mile in the air, flip it upside down and smash it into the earth and then take their sweet-ass time picking their stuff up from the rubble
If they're actually here then we're under a well-deserved quarantine and there's no contact with governments, and there's nothing these rickety capitalist states could do to effect their decision-making
Again IF they're here
my thing is if it is real alien tech i feel like the most likely thing is some alien probe ala voyager sent out 10 million years ago or some shit. if its real its very cool but unlikely to be useful scientifically
From a dead civilization to boot.