News of an alien ambassador from the United Nations spread Sunday on the internet. 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 extraterrestrial 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. Earth was given a warning about extraterrestrial existence because of all the concerns. This warning originated from Stephen Hawking. There isn’t going to be an alien ambassador, claims the British newspaper after it received an e-mail from Othman.
The U.N. will be the ones talking to the aliens?
The rumor flew around the world as it “broke” in the Sunday Times that Othman will be the ambassador appointed by the United Nations to visit aliens. The search for alien transmission was something Othman spoke about in a recent seminar. It was quoted in the Sunday Times. Othman said Earth should have a coordinated reaction and that the U.N. would be the best organization for the job. Othman was said by the Australian to be in Britain next week for a scientific conference sponsored by the Royal Society. It said she might be speaking on contacting the aliens at that time.
The search for extraterrestrial life
An extra-solar planet is also called an exoplanet. In 1992, this was first found to really exist. Hundreds of exoplanets were discovered in the NASA 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 rather than seeking the aliens out, humanity should be attempting to keep away from getting noticed. Aliens would probably be searching for someplace they can get more resources from. He says we can all imagine the consequences of this by simply looking within the mirror. “We only have to check out ourselves to view how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.”
Is Earth playing sponsor to aliens?
Othman was the one who begun the U.N. alien ambassador story. The Guardian looked for real facts instead of just going with every person else. The Royal Society got a call from the British newspaper that asked about the speech on alien contact made by Othman. No one there knew anything about it. The Office for Outer Space Affairs questions were all referred someplace else by the United Nations A switchboard in Vienna is where they went. Othman told the Guardian the truth after an e-mail sent to her. She said the U.N. alien ambassador story was just a hoax. All she had to say was, “It sounds really cool, however I have to deny it.” Her speech to the Royal Society in the near future can be about how Earth will deal with a problem that actually exists, a possible collision with near-earth objects.
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
