# Who would be the ambassadors of Earth to the Intergalactic Council? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 15, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-ambassadors-of-earth-to-the-intergalactic-council/628327 "2012-07-15T18:50:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-ambassadors-of-earth-to-the-intergalactic-council/628327/21 "2012-07-17T00:18:02Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > **How would we go about electing these representatives?** It seems like it might incite a civil/world war just fighting over who to send. Any predictions one might make will be informed by, among other things, one’s level of cynicism (nigh infinite, for some people). The richest corporate moguls on the planet would buy their way into those seats. (Not necessarily for themselves personally, but they’d buy the selection rights. You know what I’m trying to say.) ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-ambassadors-of-earth-to-the-intergalactic-council/628327/24 "2013-07-25T13:23:48Z")
To think I was under the impression that you just can’t get the good drugs any more ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-ambassadors-of-earth-to-the-intergalactic-council/628327/25 "2013-07-25T13:28:48Z")
Join date check? Affirmative. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-ambassadors-of-earth-to-the-intergalactic-council/628327/26 "2013-07-25T14:37:54Z")
If the discovery is made in the distant future, how could we possibly send anyone from the present day? Assuming we can resurrect anyone and send them, I vote Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-ambassadors-of-earth-to-the-intergalactic-council/628327/27 "2013-07-25T14:45:31Z")
> [@earthcalls](#): > > Im A Starseed Cool story, bro. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-ambassadors-of-earth-to-the-intergalactic-council/628327/28 "2013-07-25T15:57:58Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > To think I was under the impression that you just can’t get the good drugs any more Indeed. **earthcalls** , don’t bogart that shit. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-ambassadors-of-earth-to-the-intergalactic-council/628327/29 "2013-07-25T16:05:14Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > Indeed. **earthcalls** , don’t bogart that shit. I say send him to the aliens-if that doesn’t make them quarantine this planet, nothing will. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-ambassadors-of-earth-to-the-intergalactic-council/628327.md?page=1)