Sam Roberts, writing for the New York Times, examines our country’s history of reaching out to alien life forms.
The Voyager’s record carried greetings in 55 languages, including a folksy one in Amoy, a Chinese dialect, which was translated as: “Friends of space, how are you all? Have you eaten yet? Come visit us if you have time.”
With a renewed push from SETI to find extraterrestrial intelligence, Roberts asks what one might say to alien if we succeed.
So what would you say? I would probably ask if they were familiar with Newt Gingrich.