Posted on 09/25/2010 8:09:44 PM PDT by Stoat
THE United Nations was set today to appoint an obscure Malaysian astrophysicist to act as Earth�s 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 Societys 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 humanitys 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, sustains the hope that some day humankind will receive signals from extraterrestrials.
"When we do, we should have in place a coordinated response that takes into account all the sensitivities related to the subject. The UN is a ready-made mechanism for such coordination.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
We use effector beams from several light years off planet... good luck with your pea shooter...
“What if the ETs won’t acknowledge her?”
What if the ETs acknowledge and then eat her?
The American military is becoming more PC everyday.
It will soon be under the command of the UN in the new world order.
Good one.
I don’t even know why anyone would ping that poster.
That group is like ardvarks to some topics.
And once the Arkvarks show up you can consider the thread severly high jacked.
Sounds great but I would add that they self ban from all future posting to Catholic threads.
This PROVES men do look at the body of a woman *first*.
THX THX.
YEA.
Good points, imho.
LOL
IIRC, some already are. At least there have been court cases where the military personnel refused to serve under such authority and they lost their cases.
Still determinde to display deplorable ignorance on the topic?
Someone more studied on the topic by far,
who’s personally interviewd more experts on the topic,
who has more personal connections in the field
than evidently any other FREEPER
who affirms such realities as more than fantasies or swamp gass . . .
and who starts a fair percentage of such threads . . .
and I’m the one hijacking such threads?
Talk about loooooooooooooonacy or lunacy!
Flying saucer ping.
If you are going to call someone an aardvark, the least you could do is spell it right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark
And, it’s severely, NOT severly.
Carry on.
Cuteness.
Here are some nice pictures pictures in the Nova Scotia category.
http://www.webshots.com/pro/category/travel-north-america-canada-nova-scotia
I like the one of the the Chestnut-Sided Warbler.
All blessings on you now and always, my FRiend and friend.
Loved the “In Before the Quix Ping” comment, funny.
Here’s a link for ya, WOW,
http://www.webshots.com/pro/category/travel-north-america-canada-nova-scotia
thx thx
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