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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNeil deGrasse Tyson has some sage advice about first contact with a Space Alien...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
If I ever met a Space Alien, Id resist shaking its extended appendage, not knowing for sure the details of alien anatomy.
5:53 PM · Jun 27, 2021
Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
If I ever met a Space Alien, Id resist shaking its extended appendage, not knowing for sure the details of alien anatomy.
5:53 PM · Jun 27, 2021
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Neil deGrasse Tyson has some sage advice about first contact with a Space Alien... (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jun 2021
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dweller
(27,479 posts)1. Glove up Neil
Take one for the team
✌🏻
Journeyman
(15,401 posts)2. You mean like Roy did . . .

Buckeye_Democrat
(15,444 posts)6. LOL!
Or accidentally rape their waste tubes, thereby dooming humanity to a lifetime retribution of anal probes.
Skittles
(168,369 posts)3. I crush so hard on Dr. Tyson
yes INDEED
mitch96
(15,546 posts)4. Yup, if the alien turns it's head and cough's, you might have a friend for life😳 nt
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)5. If aliens were to land with communicating in mind
Perhaps we should let some other, more peaceful, species do our talking for us.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)7. Put out the universal plague flag?
Play
?t=2GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,619 posts)8. Firesign Theater had some advice, too
Avoid eye contact. If it has no eyes. avoid all contact.
Kid Berwyn
(22,167 posts)9. His option, command!
Honey, theyre in everybodys eggs.
They all play the piano just beautifully.