I’m not exactly sure what it is about this story that makes me so happy, but I am just beside myself right now. A combination of this most excellent news and my morning coffee has sent me into high orbit good and proper.

Last week I read an article about former Canadian Defence Minister, Paul Hellyer, who officially asked Canadian Parliament to hold public hearings on Exopolitics. Exopolitics, my pretties, is relations with aliens.

Hellyer thinks we need to be proactive in dealing with the possibility of an intergalactic war before its too late. I’m with him on this one, I mean I saw War of the Worlds. Did anyone even ask Tom Cruise what he thinks? Hel-lo, he’s already defended us from hostile space mosters once. AND WON, mind you.

This morning I read another story about, Richard Carrigan, a particle physicist, who believes the SETI program is putting Earth’s security at risk. Incase you haven’t heard, SETI uses giant telescopes to scour the universe for stray signals, or intentional interplanetary broadcasts emitted from other civilizations.

Carrigan believes transmissions received, that are distributed onto computers around the world, are potentially dangerous to earth’s safety. I ran SETI@home for years and now it turns out a global hacking is in order, isn’t that great? Maybe Microsoft can partner with Sony to release a patch!

{tags seti exopolitics}