If anything we should start investigating into building computerized machinery that can literally build themself from the ground up...literally.
Send them to Mars and terraform the planet, even Venus can be made livable in some respects in all of Earths resources were to join together...instead of living under Islamic fear.
Lets fix our problems here first before we start shipping our crap across the galaxy. I would tend to think other species may not approve of what we are and how we act, especially in the last century.
I say if we can confirm no intelligent life is there it’s fair game for whoever gets there first.
If the Mooselimbs want to turn Earth into a 7th century camel orgy, let them - if we have a world to go to!