Cosmonaut Promises He Will Be Nice to Any ETs He Meets

What would you say to an extraterrestrial – provided you’re in a position where you can actually speak? Would you speak in your native language? Use sign language? Draw figures in the dirt? Would your choice of words change if the ET was holding something that could be a weapon? Is hands in the air a universal sign of surrender? These are but a tiny subset of questions one might ask in preparing a training program for human space travelers who might have a close encounter with an alien much larger than a microbe. While watching “Star Trek” is an option, does NASA have such a program in place? It turns out the Russian space program has and makes no bones about publicizing it. Do they know something NASA doesn’t?

In a pre-flight press conference hosted by Rossiya Segodnya, the news agency owned and operated by the Russian government and parent company of RIA Novosti and Sputnik News, cosmonaut Sergei Kud-Sverchkov revealed his thoughts as he prepares to join the crew of the International Space Station on October 12.

“I think that when meeting intelligence extraterrestrial life, we will exhibit friendliness, goodwill and consideration, just as we do when meeting intelligent and unintelligent life on Earth.”

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