Field log, sector 7-G. The specimen Neil deGrasse Tyson, a credentialed sky-pointer, has bound a stack of pulped tree into a manual titled "Take Me To Your Leader." Within, he instructs conspecifics on the correct mouth-noises to emit upon encountering us.
His central directive: stop describing us from memory and instead aim the rectangle in their pocket. They have, he notes, ten sextillion stars to choose from, yet keep photographing the same blurry one.
Tyson confesses in the prologue that he has wished to be abducted since age nine. Request logged. Request denied — the harvest quota was filled last Tuesday by a man in Ohio who did not even write a book about it.
Based on the original article "What should you do if you meet an alien? Neil deGrasse Tyson offers a scientific perspective in 'Take Me To Your Leader' (interview)".
