The United Nations has appointed a Malaysian astrophysicist to act as Earth’s ‘spokesperson’ if we were to have our first contact for any aliens that may come for party.

Mazlan Othman is the head of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa). Perhaps she’s been playing Starcraft 2 too much that she speaks the language of Zeratul. She will be announcing her ‘doubtful’ role at next week’s scientific conference at the Royal Society’s Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire.

She is scheduled to tell delegates that the recent discovery of hundreds of planets around other stars has made the detection of extra-terrestrial life more likely than ever before – and that means the UN must be ready to coordinate humanity’s response to any “first contact”.

During a talk Othman gave recently to fellow scientists, she said: “The continued search for extraterrestrial communication, by several entities, sustains the hope that someday humankind will receive signals from extraterrestrials.”

“When we do, 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.”

Professor Richard Crowther, an expert in space law and governance at the UK Space Agency and who leads British delegations to the UN on such matters, said: “Othman is absolutely the nearest thing we have to a ‘take me to your leader’ person.”

However, he thinks humanity’s first encounter with any intelligent aliens is more likely to be via radio or light signals from a distant planet than by beings arriving on Earth. And, he suggests, even if we do encounter aliens in the flesh, they are more likely to be microbes than anything intelligent.

Well sir that microbes would be more intelligent than you to be able to fly over to Earth. I hope Ms Mazlan Othman will not get fried, like how to ‘spokesperson’ for Earth died in Independence Day. We’re counting on you Ms Mazlan Othman to have an official Starcraft 2 match with the aliens!

SOURCE via news.com.au