What Would You Say to an Alien?

A question to consider.

What would you say to an alien? There’s a question to consider. Knowing you, you would probably make a Harambe joke. Ugh. So typical. You’d be like, “Damn Daniel, George Bush can’t melt steel Harambe!” Jesus.

Anyway, have you heard this? Last month, a Russian radio telescope detected a strong, seemingly isotropic signal from space. Oh my god. Or, I mean, they detected it last year but it was made public last month. Oh my god. And, according to this NPR article I’m looking at from this guy Marcelo Gleiser who is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, the use of an isotropic signal would have meant it came from a “Kardashev Type II” type of civilization, which is one more Kardashev Type than our own. Oh my god.

But now they’re saying allegedly it was just a signal from an old Russian military satellite. Goddamn. This story is such a rollercoaster. Gleiser goes on to say that even if we aren’t alone, “in practice we remain alone,” and probably we’ll never meet aliens, because blah, blah, blah.

Still, though, I think this is an important question: What would you say? Or, oh right, I guess I know what you’d say — the thing about Harambe.

So I guess that answers that.

The end!