Thursday, April 5, 2012

#Space How Would Humans Respond to First Contact from an Alien World

Shane Pitre  -  5:29 PM  -    -  Extended circles
Like we always do, shoot first, ask questions later! lol

Artist concept of an exoplanet. Credit: NASA According to Star Trek lore, it is only 51 years until Earth’s first contact with an alien species. In the movie “Star Trek: First Contact,” Vulcans pay a visit to an Earth recovering from a war-torn period on April 5, 2063. (see the movie clip below if you aren’t familiar.) But will such a planet-wide, history-changing event ever really take place? If you are logical, like Spock and his Vulcan species, science points towards the inevitability of f...
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