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Mazlan: It Is Cool, But I’m No ET Spokesman
from Welcome to Malaysia-Instinct.com
The rumoured appointment of the first earthling spokesman to visiting extra-terresterial life forms last week is a hoax, said National Space Agency Malaysia director-general Dr Mustafa Din Subari.
He said United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa) head Datuk Mazlan Othman, who was rumoured to be the spokesman, had confirmed to him in an e-mail yesterday that there was no such appointment.
British newspaper The Guardian also quoted in its blog that Mazlan had refuted the purported appointment.
“It sounds really cool but I have to deny it,” Mazlan, an astrophysicist, was quoted as saying when responding to the rumours.
The Sunday Times of Britain had run a report claiming that Mazlan would be appointed by the United Nations as the earth’s official point-of-contact with aliens.
The article was later picked up by other media worldwide, including several local newspapers, which attracted much public interest in Mazlan’s “new role”.
Mazlan could not be contacted at her Vienna office yesterday.
Dr Mustafa, however, said that if any such appointment was to have been made, Mazlan would have been the best candidate for the job.
“You do not want a spokesman from just anywhere. Mazlan is in the highest position of outer space affairs.
“Coupled with her credentials as an astrophysicist, she would be the most appropriate candidate to take up such a role,” Dr Mustafa said of his predecessor, whose position he took over in 1999 after Mazlan left to assume her role in Unoosa.
Dr Mustafa added that scientists worldwide were still hopeful about communication with extra-terresterial life.
“Theoretically, scientists internationally are still confident in the existence of extra-terresterial life as we have found other solar systems, although we cannot yet ascertain whether there is life in those systems,” said Dr Mustafa, who also admitted that studies in the past 50 years had not produced concrete evidence of extra-terresterial life forms.
from Welcome to Malaysia-Instinct.com
The rumoured appointment of the first earthling spokesman to visiting extra-terresterial life forms last week is a hoax, said National Space Agency Malaysia director-general Dr Mustafa Din Subari.
He said United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa) head Datuk Mazlan Othman, who was rumoured to be the spokesman, had confirmed to him in an e-mail yesterday that there was no such appointment.
British newspaper The Guardian also quoted in its blog that Mazlan had refuted the purported appointment.
“It sounds really cool but I have to deny it,” Mazlan, an astrophysicist, was quoted as saying when responding to the rumours.
The Sunday Times of Britain had run a report claiming that Mazlan would be appointed by the United Nations as the earth’s official point-of-contact with aliens.
The article was later picked up by other media worldwide, including several local newspapers, which attracted much public interest in Mazlan’s “new role”.
Mazlan could not be contacted at her Vienna office yesterday.
Dr Mustafa, however, said that if any such appointment was to have been made, Mazlan would have been the best candidate for the job.
“You do not want a spokesman from just anywhere. Mazlan is in the highest position of outer space affairs.
“Coupled with her credentials as an astrophysicist, she would be the most appropriate candidate to take up such a role,” Dr Mustafa said of his predecessor, whose position he took over in 1999 after Mazlan left to assume her role in Unoosa.
Dr Mustafa added that scientists worldwide were still hopeful about communication with extra-terresterial life.
“Theoretically, scientists internationally are still confident in the existence of extra-terresterial life as we have found other solar systems, although we cannot yet ascertain whether there is life in those systems,” said Dr Mustafa, who also admitted that studies in the past 50 years had not produced concrete evidence of extra-terresterial life forms.
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