{"id":24405,"date":"2016-04-07T13:46:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T20:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/why-e-t-will-need-customer-service"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:03:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:03:06","slug":"why-e-t-will-need-customer-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/why-e-t-will-need-customer-service","title":{"rendered":"Why E.T. Will Need Customer Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-e-t-will-need-customer-service.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If history is a guide, trade may be widespread among space-voyaging civilizations throughout the galaxy. Cultures that hate each other, still find common ground across a bartering table \u2014 as noted in this article blast from the past. #SETI<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Sitting in the waiting room of my local auto repair, I honestly began to wonder if on some other far-flung planet, pointy-eared aliens would be listening for someone to sing out that they, too, were \u201cGood to Go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or, to them, would the sort of back and forth banter that we all take for granted in day-to-day business here on Earth seem as alien as ice cream? Would a highly-advanced civilization circling another sunlike star even need this sort of social lubricant?<\/p>\n<p>Probably so, says Albert Harrison, a professor emeritus of social psychology at the University of California at Davis. \u201cEvery culture on Earth and many different species [here] depend at least in part on exchange and reciprocity,\u201d said Harrison. Unless an off-world civilization has a complete \u201chive\u201d-like mentality, he says it\u2019s probably not a stretch to think that marketing, customer service and even social decorum (or at least some sort of etiquette and civility) would also play a role there as well.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2014\/05\/05\/why-e-t-will-need-customer-service\/#5bf0397468d1\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2014\/05\/05\/why-e-t...f0397468d1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If history is a guide, trade may be widespread among space-voyaging civilizations throughout the galaxy. Cultures that hate each other, still find common ground across a bartering table \u2014 as noted in this article blast from the past. #SETI Sitting in the waiting room of my local auto repair, I honestly began to wonder if [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1506,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-food","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67772,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24405\/revisions\/67772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}