{"id":53168,"date":"2026-05-17T20:49:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=53168"},"modified":"2026-05-17T20:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:49:41","slug":"how-should-we-greet-aliens-neil-degrasse-tyson-has-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=53168","title":{"rendered":"How should we greet aliens? Neil deGrasse Tyson has the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Neil deGrasse Tyson has had a lifelong fantasy of being abducted by aliens. That\u2019s right: he actually wants to be taken.<\/p>\n

\u201cI even picture the scenario in my head: I\u2019m sitting out there alone, and a beam of light comes down,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s not a spacecraft that\u2019s hovering over me. It\u2019s just a beam of light from space. And I just get lifted up into that beam of light, and I appear in a new place.\u201d<\/p>\n

America\u2019s favourite astrophysicist<\/span> has turned that lifelong fascination into a book, Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter<\/em>, which \u2013 like that beam of light \u2013 illuminates what we know about possible space critters<\/span> and what we can anticipate if they ever come calling.<\/div>\n

\u201cEven if it doesn\u2019t actually happen, there\u2019s value to going through the thought experiment of what could happen,\u201d says Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium at New York\u2019s American Museum of Natural History. \u201cMaybe there\u2019s some takeaways that offer insights into how you think about the world, how we think about each other and the future of our civilisation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book is a unique road map into the brain of Tyson, who has the ability to blend pop culture with quantum physics.<\/p>\n

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The cover of Neil deGrasse Tyson\u2019s new book. Photo: Simon & Schuster via AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Take Me to Your Leader<\/em> references evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould and Cartoon Network\u2019s Rick and Morty<\/em> and weaves ideas from both the French philosopher Voltaire and lyrics by Katy Perry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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