I would like to think, in an ideal world, Musk uses his “Starlink” to be the sucessor to Arecibo and build an Earth sized high resolution radio telescope to send and recieve communications from long distances. Then we would get serious about actually linking up with Aliens in a public way. An age of tech sharing and cooperarion. The end to manufactured scarcity and evolve as a spiecies.

Then I come back to defaulting that the absolute worst of crap-it-all-ism and imperalism is the norm and see it as a cynical ploy to fund a Death Star space race to fear monger about fictional space weapons by our economic competitors and to gatekeep by force any other nation from expanding in space and doing actual cool evolutionary society advancing stuff.