It’s Saturday night, so we are considering “What SETI Guru Wants to Know,” courtesy Creation-Evolution Headlines (May 18, 2012): As a consulted for a new Hollywood space opera, Battleship, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence’s Seth Shostak wants them to tell him,
But if it ever got to a point where you could get into a conversation and ask questions, my two have always been: do you have music and do you have religion?
I wouldn’t ask about physics because we could eventually figure that out, but those two questions are things only they would know.
What do readers think the aliens would say in reply?