If Aliens Contact Humanity, Who Decides What We Do Next? – The Guardian
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“Or are they?”
“Look at the mess we made when Covid hit. We’d be like headless chickens,” says Dr John Elliott, a computational linguist at the University of St Andrews. “We cannot afford to be ill-prepared, scientifically, socially, and politically rudderless, for an event that could happen at any time and which we cannot afford to mismanage.”
This frank assessment of Earth’s unreadiness for contact with life elsewhere underpins the creation of the Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) post-detection hub at St Andrews. Over the next month or two, Elliott aims to bring together a core team of international researchers and affiliates. They will take on the job of getting ready: to analyse mysterious signals, or even artefacts, and work out every aspect of how we should respond…. “After the initial announcement, we’d be looking at societal impact, information dissemination, the media, the impact on religions and belief systems, the potential for disinformation, what analytical capabilities we’ll need, and much more: having strategies in place, being transparent with everything we’ve discovered — what we know and what we do not know,” says Elliott….
Lewis Dartnell, an astrobiologist and professor of science communication at the University of Westminster, said the new hub at St Andrews is “an important step in raising awareness at how ill-prepared we currently are” for detecting a signal from an alien civilisation. But he added that any intelligent aliens were likely to be hundreds if not thousands of light years away, meaning communication time would be on the scale of many centuries. “Even if we were to receive a signal tomorrow, we would have plenty of breathing space to assemble an international team of diverse experts to attempt to decipher the meaning of the message, and carefully consider how the Earth should respond, and even if we should.
“The bigger concern is to establish some form of international agreement to prevent capable individuals or private corporations from responding independently — before a consensus has formed on whether it is safe to respond at all, and what we would want to say as one planet,” he said.
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A SELF-proclaimed time traveller has claimed aliens are heading to earth to destroy us.
Eno Alric, known as “theradianttimetraveler” on TikTok, wildly claims to be from the year 2671.
On his page, he has made a series of bonkers forecasts for the future, warning in his bio that “mankind is on the brink of destruction”.
Despite none of his previous predictions panning out, he still racks up hundreds of thousands of views on his barmy posts.
He has now warned of a life-changing event he oddly claims will happen in March.
In a new video he said an extraterrestrial species known as “the Champion” will arrive on Earth.
He added: “The world will soon end.
“A very hostile alien species is coming to take back the Earth, we will not win.
“Another alien, whose world was destroyed by the hostiles, will save some of us.
“On March 23, 2023, about 8,000 people will be taken to another habitable planet.”
Despite it racking up hundreds of thousands of viewer, most were not convinced.
One person wrote: “I am a time traveller and I want to inform you that Sunday is the year 2023.”
Another joked: “If it’s gonna end soon, then how were you alive in 2671?”
Eno replied: “As I said, 8,000 are taken to another planet.”
He previously claimed “very big things” will happen on four December dates.
But sceptical TikTok users were left divided by the baseless predictions.
One said: “I know what the event is…. Christmas.”
Another added: “Yes I am a time traveller too that date… is Christmas.”
A third replied: “If you 6,000 years in the future, then how do you have a old phone and know how to work TikTok?”
Many social media users pointed out that Eno’s similar predictions for November never came true.
The supposed time traveller previously claimed that there would be five major events to remember from this month.
He alleged that humans would find new planets, be hit by a tidal wave and be visited by aliens.
UNLICKY Morrisons and Sainsbury’s customers have claimed gross turkeys ruined their Christmas dinner.
Families have been left fuming after they bought the “rotten” meat – and didn’t realise until shortly before their festive feats.
Jonathan Heard said his Sainsbury’s turkey was ‘slimy skin with yellowing patches’[/caption]
Another man said Christmas was ruined and he was forced to have beans on toast because of his gross turkey[/caption]
Brits have been taking to social media with disgusting images of their turkeys.
One person even said they had no choice but to settle for beans on toast after uncovering the “off” bird.
Adam Green shared a picture of the turkey he got from Sainsbury’s.
He wrote in a post: “Just got my Sainsbury’s turkey out the fridge to stuff it and prep it for Christmas dinner for the bird to absolutely stink!
“Gave it 15 mins to see if the smell would go only for it to get worse.
“Very disappointing considering it would’ve been the centrepiece.”
In response, a Sainsbury’s spokesperson said: “I’m terribly sorry about the poor quality turkey.
“Can you send us a DM and confirm your name, address and email please? I’ll look into this.”
Jonathan Heard had a similar experience, sharing: “Oh wow Sainsbury’s this is a pretty poor show!
“Fresh turkey dated 27th Dec and it’s bad! Slimy skin with yellowing patches and smells off.
“That’s going to put a downer on tomorrow’s Christmas dinner for 13.”
Another Twitter user said: “What the hell Sainsbury’s.
“My turkey is rotten, Christmas ruined, kids are crying. We now have to have beans on toast. An absolute disgrace.”
A Morrisons customer also had an unfortunate Christmas dining experience after finding their turkey had gone bad.
They said: “Morrisons really disappointed. Have opened my food to order Turkey this morning, and it’s off.”
A Morrisons spokesperson told the Mirror: “Our quality team taste test all our products.
“We have been taste testing our turkeys against our high quality and safety standards throughout the Christmas period – including our joints, crowns and whole birds – and we have rigorous standards, procedures and testing in place with our approved suppliers.
“Any complaints received from customers will be thoroughly investigated with our suppliers to ensure we satisfy our customers and meet our high quality standards.”
Last year shoppers also complained of “rancid” birds.
It comes as an online shopper revealed the bizarre substitution he was given after he ordered a 1kg chicken for Christmas.
The cook shared pictures of the strange replacement he claims ASDA made for the chicken he wanted.
Instead of the 1kg chicken, ASDA delivered a 5.2kg turkey Christmas turkey.
The shopper had already ordered a 2kg turkey crown from the store.
Now he has over 7kg of turkey meat to get through this Christmas.
Taking to Reddit with his snaps of the substitution, the shopper branded it a “huge win”.
The Christmas cook said: “It doesn’t fit in my roaster!”
One Twitter user shared a picture of his turkey which had a green tinge[/caption]
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