texts: Or it could contain some great benefit to us, some astonishing new idea or technology to help mankind. </s> <s> It could.  But the odds of it being any use to us are against it. </s> <s> You don't know that.
labels: Let's say whoever made this thing is a thousand years ahead of us, just like we are to, say, medieval Europe.  Suppose you went back to medieval Europe with a TV set.  There wouldn't be any place to plug it in.