Mazlan Othman

Is that true, or did you read it in The Australian?

User Image tlambert | September 27, 2010
The Australian breathlessly informs us that: The UN is to appoint an astrophysicist to be the first contact for any aliens ... Mazlan Othman will describe her potential new role next week at a scientific conference at the Royal Society's Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire. But Matthew Weaver at the Guardian has spoiled the fun by contacting Othman: Finally an email from Othman herself would have prompted our Martian to trudge back to his spaceship. "It sounds really cool but I have to deny it," she said of the story. She will be attending a conference next week, but she'll be…