We will make the first contact, otherwise aliens would have contacted us long ago. That is unless they are waiting for our morphophysiological process of evolution to progress to a certain point, a point at which a decision will be made to contact us or not.
Yes if we look at the relationship of physiological evolution of species between themselves and the expansion of niche they exist in we would notice the large scales of time required for one species to counteract with another and allow for the expansion of niche it is in. Humans are a best example, they all originated from one location, Ethiopea. However it took tens of thousands of years for them to spread while interacting with other unknown previously to them species. We are the ones who initiated contact with other species, but it took us a very long time to do so. Otherwise if the aliens were intelligent as we are they would have initiated contact long since. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
You can state all you want about us-- But unless you have knowledge of extraterrestrial intelligence, it's anyones guess who might do what.
I say its mor likely we make firs contact wit (simple) alien life forms... such life forms coud be on mars or the moon an wit-in mounthes or a few years from discovery.!!!
With the enormity of the universe, you have to wonder what the chances are that we even encounter a life form that has evolved enough to engage in a form of contact (unless we are to define contact as meeting/seeing something).