Your answers indicate to me that you have a healthy curiosity and are an independent thinker, in my opinion those are qualities that are very important for anyone that works in creating new products.
Your answer to "a)" raises a new question in my mind.
There are two books that were printed back in the nineteen fifties, they contain photographs, drawings, explanations and some "incredible" claims about eti. Most people that I have talked to about the author or the books, tell me that the author was a "charlatan" and the books are "garbage".
I wonder if you have read the books.?
The titles are "The Flying Saucers Have Landed" and "Inside The Spaceships". The author was George Adamski.
So far only D. Spires has given a direct (or concise) answer to my question.
He seems to be using a very old concept in international relations to make decisions about scientific progress.
International Relations
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.
Demosthenes (c. 384–322 B.C.), Greek orator. Second Philippic, sct. 24 (344 B.C.).
Johannes