A better question is "Are the aliens ready for us?" If I were some enterprising alien space explorer, I'd either give this species a very wide berth or I'd be running photo safaris for the tourists with humanity as the star attraction.
New articles today are Altea Aerospace and Paracone. Also added to the SpaceTech Museum article. Next up: Wideawake International, Dragonfly and Olympus Base.
1. Hit by a relativistic diamond meteor, a la XKCD What If? number 20, found here
2. More contagious version of Ebola becoming a pandemic.
3. BOSD of the matrix after a numeric overflow in the time keeping logic.
4. Skynet initiates "terminator program" and set hundreds of ancient H-bombs to...