If I’m reading it correctly, the document doesn’t offer any concrete action plan; it just says something along the lines of 'the United Nations should be consulted'. Am I missing something? It’s rather anticlimactic...

What's actually going to happen is someone like Peter Thiel will build some mechanism to signal back to them.

So I’m guessing someone read “The Dark Forest”!

A popular sentiment related to this is that since we're on the only planet in the universe that we know to have the gift of life (and especially somewhat intelligent life), we have a duty to do our best to preserve it.

If we find definitive proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, I wonder how many will decide that it's okay to do anything regardless of its effect on our ability to continue existing.

the way this is worded demonstrates hubris or egotism, but leaves out the very significant probability that we are far to stupid to recognise intelligence in the first place kind of like, since dogs can sense light, there for they understand that the little light way up high moving along in arcs, which they also umderstand, arcs that is, are a sattelite comunication systems I think the aliens are rooting for us, "come on.guys, come we know you can make a pulsar if .you .put .your, min, ok ok, perhaps take a break and evolve for another galactic half rotation and give bit another try"

We should first get their contact info and automatically sign them up for all our newsletters and promotional communications.