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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”.
Originally posted by FOXMULDER147
This is bizarre. What is the purpose? The woman is nearly 60 years old. Are they expecting to meet aliens in the very near future, then?
And why tell us about it now? Very, very strange.
Originally posted by esteay812
reply to post by Ross 54
I wonder if there was something to a video I watched on a thread here the other day. I wish I could remember the member ...
Originally posted by FOXMULDER147
This is bizarre. What is the purpose? The woman is nearly 60 years old. Are they expecting to meet aliens in the very near future, then?
And why tell us about it now? Very, very strange.