Sep 09 2009
Interstellar beer appreciation
By Jon Lomberg
A random sampling of several hundred among the thousands of messages submitted to Hello to Earth tells us this: If Earthlings believe anything about aliens, it’s that they will like beer.
Common ground
An amazing number of messages invite ET to have a brew. It’s an expression of humanity’s long love affair with the brewer’s art. And confidence that, while the aliens may be smarter than us, they won’t have a good lager on tap.
