I realize you can just answer, “mysterious aliens beyond our understanding,” but why would a space probe have a mandate of either talk to a whale for 30 seconds or destroy Earth and disable everything in its path on the way to Earth?

Why? What does that achieve?

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    14 days ago

    Star Trek is about facing “outside context problems” and solving them anyway.