Extraterrestrial Contact: Six things for Elected Officials to Consider

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1. You have been thrust into one of the most important points in human history.
2. Your actions could impact humanity positively or negatively for many generations to come
3. If you don’t control this situation with carefully measured, and yet quickly carried out, actions, there could be many damaging outcomes.
4. If you don’t work with all nations and international agencies you will risk global conflict. Such a response may also hurt your nation’s relationship with the aliens.
5. You must work quickly to establish a framework for response that is based on international cooperation, transparency in actions, and public reassurance.
6. Make use of scientific experts. Start with people in the SETI community who have considered such events and responses for many years now. Reach out quickly to other important fields in the social sciences: sociology, political science, religion, and international relations, to name just a few. Consider the impact of information coming from extraterrestrials with scientists in all fields that could be effected by that information: physics, astronomy, engineering etc.

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