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 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, 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.”
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[Grin.]
Rush pointed out that the office should be relocated because UFOs are normally sited near trailor parks.
“invalid permit to be in this sector of the galaxy.”
The intergalactic passport, perhaps? The birthing spawn vat certificate. Inter-alien reproduction without a Federation charter. The list goes on.
LOL He doesn’t have any of those documents. Not even a McDonald’s Hamburger College diploma.
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