Finally something useful from the UN

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/un-to-appoint-earth-contact-for-aliens/story-e6frfku0-1225929498742

UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens

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.”

Professor Richard Crowther, an expert in space law and governance at the UK Space Agency and who leads British delegations to the UN on such matters, said: “Othman is absolutely the nearest thing we have to a ‘take me to your leader’ person.”

However, he thinks humanity’s first encounter with any intelligent aliens is more likely to be via radio or light signals from a distant planet than by beings arriving on Earth. And, he suggests, even if we do encounter aliens in the flesh, they are more likely to be microbes than anything intelligent.

Now how is the UN going to blame this on Israel?

Why, easy. It's Israel's fault for the UN having to pay this woman $200K/year so that aliens will have someone to talk to. And it's obviously the US' fault for keeping the poor aliens down. And the aliens are just waiting until the UN disarms the US through treaties just waiting Senate approval before they come give us free stuff.

So when do we get our matching jumpsuits?

MitchellC wrote: So when do we get our matching jumpsuits?

I hope the jumpsuits look like the ones on futurama. That would be hilarious. and disturbing.

God help us if the aliens have a different hue to their presence

Wally wrote: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/un-to-appoint-earth-contact-for-aliens/story-e6frfku0-1225929498742 UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens 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”.

So let me see if I have this right. Because we just recently "discovered" that there are lots of planets out there, somehow the odds of ET contact just went up? Weren't the planets and theoretical lifeforms already there before we discovered them? How have the odds changed?

That's a pretty sweet gig. For the business cards, if nothing else. Space Ambassador for Extraterrestrial Contact Affairs

Of course, I could probably put that on my business cards anyway, and be taken just as seriously, given that the whole thing is ridiculous.

Also, surely the FBI/CIA/MIB/Area-51 people have some top-secret ET protocol that will immediately render this person's role moot.

oh, yeah.. i'm sure everyone in the entire world will look to the UN when the time comes to talk to aliens..

i just hope they don't land in Japan or Germany and think that the rest of the world is like them..

It's good to see that the UN doesn't have its head up its collective ass. Wait.... what?

I'll be your Ambassator. I'll let you poke at me, rub a little skin off, hell I'll even have one of your little grey babies; just LET ME WALK THROUGH THE ENGINE ROOM!

Thank you, that is all.

internetautomart wrote: Now how is the UN going to blame this on Israel?

They always find a way.

i <3 Onion???

novaderrik wrote: i just hope they don't land in Japan

School girls with pink and blue hair, short skirts, and those fake contact lenses that make your eyes look big, coupled with a dude buying used girl panties out of a vending machine. Ya, that would be a little awkward!

Oh hai - I can haz a ride 2 ur leaders house y0!1

novaderrik wrote: oh, yeah.. i'm sure everyone in the entire world will look to the UN when the time comes to talk to aliens.. i just hope they don't land in Japan or Germany and think that the rest of the world is like them..

No worse than landing in the boondocks of the South!