{"id":20564,"date":"2016-10-31T13:32:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T12:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20564"},"modified":"2016-10-31T13:32:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T12:32:54","slug":"what-do-we-do-if-aliens-make-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20564","title":{"rendered":"What do we do if aliens make contact?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/shortcuts\/2016\/oct\/30\/what-protocol-aliens-make-contact-arrival\">this short article<\/a> makes clear, Hollywood has all sorts of answers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There\u2019s &#8216;Contact&#8217; (we build a space ship), &#8216;District 9&#8217; (coexist unhappily), &#8216;Close Encounters of the Third Kind&#8217; (friendly abductions) and &#8216;Independence Day&#8217; (bang!). Next week, Denis Villeneuve\u2019s &#8216;Arrival&#8217; will give its answer.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, as the article makes clear, unless the laws of physics can be altered in some unimaginable way no aliens could ever make the journey to visit us and even a two-way exchange of messages would take hundreds of years. So that&#8217;s that one more thing you don&#8217;t have to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>So back to worrying about Donald Trump. What do you mean, you think he might be an alien?!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this short article makes clear, Hollywood has all sorts of answers: &#8220;There\u2019s &#8216;Contact&#8217; (we build a space ship), &#8216;District 9&#8217; (coexist unhappily), &#8216;Close Encounters of the Third Kind&#8217; (friendly abductions) and &#8216;Independence Day&#8217; (bang!). Next week, Denis Villeneuve\u2019s &#8216;Arrival&#8217; will give its answer.&#8221; Of course, as the article makes clear, unless the laws of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20566,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20564\/revisions\/20566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}