Wow, speaking of aliens

You can see below, only a few days ago I posted about the two TV shows, The Event and V, and how it might in a conspiracy theorist world point to a future disclosure about extraterrestrial contact. I mentioned how I'm a huge fan of the idea; I think our civilization has really stalled in advancements since the Apollo program, the Internet, and the iPhone. What's next? Better, smaller, faster iPhones? Maybe electric cars, maybe hydrogen power, maybe better solar and wind generators?

These are all great, but we need something revolutionary. We need something that will free us from the chains of gravity. And these aliens could provide it. Anyway, in the last week there have been two hot articles floating across the internet:

1) A fiasco about Mazlan Othman, head of UN's Office for Outer Space Affairs, being nominated as the single representation to future contact with aliens. She's supposed to speak soon about the implications of first contact.

2) The discovery of the first exoplanet falling within a habitable zone of its star. While the planet cannot yet be considered Class M until its atmospheric composition can be determined, this is still incredible news: the first plant that can sustain life as we know it. You can read all the stories on the internet about it, but this planet was found in a small subset of a few hundred sampled, which suggests that the universe is absolutely teeming with habitable planets, as most of scientists already suspected at this point, but now we have our first confirmation.

If there is some global conspiracy to soften up the public to the idea of announcing extraterrestrial contact, I think we're ready for it.