There were rumors of the United Nations appointing an alien ambassador spread on the internet. Sunday was when all of these started flying. The Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Othman was expected to take the job as the head of the U.N. Office for Outer Space Affairs. Othman said on record that it would only happen if it were in reaction to alien visitors already come. Extraterrestrial contact is not as much of a far-reached idea as it was within the past. There are numerous discoveries of planets outside of the solar system. Stephen Hawking has told Earth to be cautious as there might be alien life. The British newspaper was the first to receive the news from Othman that there would be no extraterrestrial ambassador to outer space.
The U.N. would be the ones talking to the aliens?
The story that Mazlan Othman would be appointed the U.N. alien ambassador “broke” in the Sunday Times and spread like a super bug all over the world. The Sunday Times quoted Othman from a speech at a recent seminar in which she talked about the search for alien transmissions from space. She explained that earth needs to be ready to respond at any minute. Othman also gave the opinion that the United Nations should be responsible for this. The Australian was just one of the newspapers that said Othman might be in Britain next week for the Royal Society sponsored conference talking more about alien contact.
The extraterrestrial life search
The first extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, was confirmed to exist in 1992. Hundreds of exoplanets were found in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration space observatory launched in 2009 called the Kepler Mission. Stephen Hawking warned Earth although there is probably not any intelligent alien life. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Hawking said that instead of seeking the aliens out, humanity should be trying to keep away from getting noticed. Aliens might probably be looking for someplace they can get more resources from. He states we can all imagine the consequences of this by simply looking in the mirror. “We only have to look at ourselves to determine how intelligent existence might develop into something we would not want to meet.”
Is Earth playing host to aliens?
Othman was the one who started the United Nations alien ambassador story. Rather than jump on the bandwagon, the Guardian decided to really check the facts. The Royal Society got a call from the British newspaper that asked about the speech on alien contact made by Othman. It was news to them. Nobody knew about it. The Office for Outer Space Affairs questions were all referred someplace else by the U.N. A switchboard in Vienna is where they went. Finally, Othman responded to a Guardian e-mail and burst the U.N. alien ambassador bubble. She wrote “It sounds really cool, however I have to deny it.” There is a real problem that needs to be solved in her speech at the Royal Society. Earth may be colliding with some objects in its rotation soon which will be discussed.
The Australian
theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-un-is-to-appoint-an-astrophysicist-to-be-the-first-contact-for-any-aliens/story-e6frg6so-1225929540635
Sunday Times
timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article7107207.ece
The Guardian
guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/sep/27/un-alien-ambassador-mazlan-othman
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