Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agoTIL that an astrophistics who is Malaysian is and will be our first leading leader to Aliens.www.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down157
arrow-up1-50arrow-down1external-linkTIL that an astrophistics who is Malaysian is and will be our first leading leader to Aliens.www.cbsnews.comDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squarejust some guy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-220 days ago Update, 10:12 a.m. PDT: The story has been recast to include a newspaper report of Othman denying the purported appointment as an ambassador to the aliens. Womp womp
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·19 days agoIt doesn’t even make sense as a preparedness measure since it’s not something we have seen any good chance of happening any time soon. I mean sure, SETI finds a signal, then you find the ambassador to make the official response to the beings of the Tau Ceti system. Before that, it’s like an ambassador to the Yeti population of the Himalayas.
minus-squarejust some guy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·19 days agodibs on yeti ambassador!
Womp womp
It doesn’t even make sense as a preparedness measure since it’s not something we have seen any good chance of happening any time soon.
I mean sure, SETI finds a signal, then you find the ambassador to make the official response to the beings of the Tau Ceti system.
Before that, it’s like an ambassador to the Yeti population of the Himalayas.
dibs on yeti ambassador!