Ever wonder what happens when ET lands on earth and says, “Take me to your leader?”
There is no need to worry about what happens at that critical moment in human history.
The UN has stepped in and appointed a Malaysian astrophysicist for “first contact.”
Mazlan Othman, the head of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), said that when contact comes with extraterrestrials “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.”
So when ET lands, the bureaucracy-laden, impotent and resolution loving UN will be in charge.
UNOOSA deals with international cooperation in space, prevention of collisions and space debris, use of space-based remote sensing platforms for sustainable development, coordination of space law between countries and the risks posed by near-earth asteroids. Now it also has the space ambassador for extraterrestrial contact affairs.
Hopefully, ET does not want anything done, because the UN is only as powerful as its member states can agree. As we all know, they don’t agree on much.
This sounds like a good reason for ET to skip a visit to earth.
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