Now imagine you are debugging the console output after it went thru a web server, your browser, your local dev environment, your local console, and then pasted into your text editor.
Yep, first noticed this a week ago. Lots of services redirecting into G+. Definitely going to skew the numbers WRT the concept of active vs passive growth.
It's modern sun god mysticism loosely veiled in science (go astronauts!) in order to get around that pesky thing called evolution. Evolution is universally accepted by science and if you dig deep you realize everything on Earth is connected in all kinds of ways via multiple evolutionary paths.
What's more probable is that IF any ET exist they live in a galaxy far far away...too far to ever travel to ours.
With your tech track record you're really talking about them hiring you on as a founding CTO. You should get a corresponding amount of equity + salary as investment is raised.
The in-between is to take cash up front with the idea that they can hire you on long term as CTO as they raise cash.