Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Who represents humanity?

Macleans blogger Andrew Potter posted the following scenario:
So the aliens have finally arrived, the spaceships are hovering over all the major cities of the earth, and the following request arrives: Please send three representatives to meet with your new overlords.

Ok, so, who do we send? Who are humanity's envoys to the men from the stars? His choices were William Shatner, Pamela Anderson and Keanu Reeves - which I can only assume is tongue-in-cheek or an effort to rid the planet of some deadweight. But who do you think it should be?

My vote:
1. Sylvio Berlusconi: the guy won a fourth majority in the most notoriously unstable government in Europe; not only can he talk, but he can listen and judge both alien position and Earth capabilities in moments... he would do what was politically necessary at the time without moral qualms.
2. Some top-trained superspy: the inspiration for Jack Bauer or James Bond, the person who can observe what needs to be seen, MacGyver what needs to be constructed and do what needs to be done in order to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - with the patience to wait for the right time.
3. Heidi Fleiss: after catering to the peccadillos of Hollywood's A-list, how tough could it be to manage her disgust and source the demands of our new alien overlords?

What do you think?

Peace out.

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