• just some guy@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months 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

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      3 months ago

      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.