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ET phone home....why yes of course, let the UN appoint a Meet and Greeter, first contact? What could possibly go wrong?
Of course my shock was palpable when I discovered they actually have an office called-Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa) ....(lets hope the office staff gets eaten first
).
But, after further review, maybe they are onto something? Any contact will require prolonged; intelligent, principled, organized, useful discussion and timely decisions that are actionable, requiring effort and coordination.
In that case they'll warp out of here quicker than you can Jackie Robinson out of sheer boredom, frustration and exhaustion.
If they have hostile intent they may just throw up their hands and blast us all, but at least it will be quick...or they may just send a message back home, no intelligent life in this quadrant.
THE United Nations was set today to appoint an obscure Malaysian astrophysicist to act as Earths first contact for any aliens that may come visiting.
Mazlan Othman, the head of the UN's little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), is to describe her potential new role next week at a scientific conference at the Royal Society’s Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire.
She is scheduled to tell delegates that the recent discovery of hundreds of planets around other stars has made the detection of extraterrestrial life more likely than ever before - and that means the UN must be ready to coordinate humanity’s response to any “first contact”.
During a talk Othman gave recently to fellow scientists, she said: “The continued search for extraterrestrial communication, by several entities, suustains the hope that some day humankind will receive signals from extraterrestrials.
Read more: UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens | News.com.au
Of course my shock was palpable when I discovered they actually have an office called-Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa) ....(lets hope the office staff gets eaten first
).But, after further review, maybe they are onto something? Any contact will require prolonged; intelligent, principled, organized, useful discussion and timely decisions that are actionable, requiring effort and coordination.
In that case they'll warp out of here quicker than you can Jackie Robinson out of sheer boredom, frustration and exhaustion.
If they have hostile intent they may just throw up their hands and blast us all, but at least it will be quick...or they may just send a message back home, no intelligent life in this quadrant.
THE United Nations was set today to appoint an obscure Malaysian astrophysicist to act as Earths first contact for any aliens that may come visiting.
Mazlan Othman, the head of the UN's little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), is to describe her potential new role next week at a scientific conference at the Royal Society’s Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire.
She is scheduled to tell delegates that the recent discovery of hundreds of planets around other stars has made the detection of extraterrestrial life more likely than ever before - and that means the UN must be ready to coordinate humanity’s response to any “first contact”.
During a talk Othman gave recently to fellow scientists, she said: “The continued search for extraterrestrial communication, by several entities, suustains the hope that some day humankind will receive signals from extraterrestrials.
Read more: UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens | News.com.au
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