Newsgroups: sci.space
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: alien contact
Message-ID: <1989Apr1.224541.22308@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7751@pyr.gatech.EDU> <10245@nsc.nsc.com> <7787@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 89 22:45:41 GMT

In article <7787@pyr.gatech.EDU> ccoprmd@pyr.UUCP (Matthew T. DeLuca) writes:
>As to who the aliens would contact...well, where would the best place be?  I
>would vote for the United States, because (1) by almost any standard, we are 
>the most advanced nation on earth, and (2) the U.N. (for all it's worth) is
>located here...

Of course, if they consider spaceflight a major sign of civilization, then
there's absolutely no doubt about where they will go:  Baikonur.  Or just
possibly Plesetsk, although if they're being attentive to things like the
activity around Mir it'll be Baikonur for sure.  The other spaceports on
Earth are insignificant by comparison to either of those two.  Between them
they handle 80%+ of Earth's space traffic.
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