Obama: &quot;If You Make Contact with Martians, Please Let Me
Know Right Away&quot; (Updated)S  Today at 8am Pacific President
Obama called the Mars Curiosity Rover team to congratulate them
on the amazing feat that they accomplished on August 5. After
commending their hard work and genius as a symbol of America's
space prowess and innovation, he finished his call with this:
If in fact you do make contact with Martians, please tell me
know right away.  Then he added "I got a lot other things on my
plate, but I can say that... that would go to the top of the
list... even if they are just microbes." Of course, discovering
alien life would definitely change the course of the
election—not to talk history.  NASA's JPL team laughed at his
quip, but I'm sure they were hoping to hear something like "and
to thank you we are going to give you $1 trillion so you can
take us to Mars for real" instead. Or at least "and here's 2.7
billion more to take a submarine robot to [Jupiter's moon]
Europa."  Note: remember that we