Ah, but, if I may, the original proposal wasn’t to agnostically gather information, it was to seek information to confirm an assumption. Which, if it’s realised by other parties to be your intent, leaves you hugely open to be fed misinformation.Well, I am proposing to collect more information, so that we could use it in as a basis for stratgic considerations. I don't see how it helps that to say "we don't have enough information". Obviously, that is the case, hence the original proposal.
And that’s why it’s key to make the observation that what we know doesn’t dictate what is known by humanity as a whole, and that some others know far more than us. And that despite some knowing what we want to know, we are still in the situation we are currently in.