If intelligent life was discovered on another planet who would you want to make first contact and why?

Question

what person or group of people would be represent the human race?

Answer 1

The disenfranchised. The marginalized. Our poorest. Our weakest. The children of brothels and sex trade work. The countless who have been physically and emotionally abused.

Sugar coating the nature of being human is something that I chose to avoid.

Meet us, in our glory and in our shame.

Answer 2

I don't know who I'd want, but I know who I _wouldn't_ want: ANY politician.

On second thought, I think Richard Dawkins or Neil DeGrasse Tyson would make good first-contact emissaries. Dawkins is an author of some note on the human condition. Tyson is (IIRC) director of the NYC Planetarium and host of PBS' "Nova". Both are people with highly rational minds, which is what I think would be needed for a first contact.

Now why an advanced alien race would have any interest in making contact with our race of primitive barbarians, is another question entirely.

Answer 3

First, we need to discover intelligent life on earth. Have we done that yet? But to answer your question, maybe we could send George Bush as our representative. Life on earth don't get no more intelligent than that.

Answer 4

it would be as if the wisest of the wise summoned them into existence. that would be the most acceptable way to initiate that type of chaos.

we'll have someone foolish enough to reveal the prime series x tensoronic field circumstantiation manifolds, and then mankind will go through a type of anti-christ phase, where nobody really expects it possible to actually prevent technological anarchy and terrorism.

whatever survives and works regarding a preservation of the wisdom surrounding the unleashing of hell coming to be thwarted-- that will usher in the era of information exchange b/w the 24 super-cultures and earth.

Answer 5

Michael Jackson.

Answer 6

i really don't think i want the human race to be represented by any humans that i know...we just ain't that nice...never have been very nice...we can't even be nice to each other and critters here on our own planet...imagine the fear of the unknown and power plays we'd fall prey to if we were to meet intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. they'd have to annihilate us for their own protection for we are incorrigible.

Answer 7

If intelligent life does land, I hope that they meet the Dali Lama or Kahil Gibran and not George Bush and Dick Cheney. Bush would probably start in interstellar war.

Answer 8

Would not want to make contact. Not by us or by them. Leave them a lone, for it is always those that have good intentions....are the ones that cause the gravest harm. Leave well enough alone...besides if they are more intelligent that us, we might find ourselves exterminated.

Answer 9

Defiantly not George Bush!

I'd have to say the presidents, all the presidents of the world, come together

Answer 10

Obviously I would want to make first contact, because then I would be famous.