Notes on Encounters with Unknown Life Forms

Human beings have reproduced for 250,000 years, and we have always been afraid of things we don't understand. Those explanations of how the sun rises, those monsters with human heads and bird bodies, those living stones. So we call them "gods" and "demons" and ask them for forgiveness and pray for salvation. And over the past 5,000 years, their numbers have been decreasing, and our numbers have been increasing. However, the unexplainable does not disappear, as if the world is deliberately trying to appear absurd and incredible. Humanity can no longer live in fear. Nothing can protect us, we must protect ourselves...