NASA Was Asked What To Do If We Encounter Aliens

They had an answer..

What they said might be a different perspective than you might expect.  In a recent interview NASA was asked many different questions, including the possibility of warp drive.  The one that caught our interest was about aliens.  Often we hear discussions of this topic and think that is for those on the fringe.  However, with the discovery of exoplanets and restarting the SETI program, the topic has gotten a lot of serious discussion.  This is what they had to say on the matter:

Has NASA got any guidelines if they were to encounter aliens in space? (Michael Wittemore)

That’s a good question. I don’t know, but I will try to find out and get word to somebody. We probably don’t have guidelines because we don’t realistically think we’re going to encounter somebody like you or me.

We do have guidelines for dealing with microbial life if we find it. In fact, we have guidelines that prevent us from, for example, on Mars getting too close to a place that may be a source of living organisms, because we don’t want to contaminate that area.

Check out the video below to see the full interview.

thanks to iflscience.com for the great info



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