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The CDC says to distract the aliens with Lady Gaga videos if 'Independence Day' ever happens for real

by Tyler Munro

When the Centers for Disease Control aren’t scaring the population with its campaigns about swine flu, bird flu and—presumably sometime soon—horse flu, they’re apparently making silly lists about what you should do should one of many iconic disaster movies come true.

Among them is the 1996 Will Smith blockbuster Independence Day, which you might recall featured some cool puns and a bunch of stuff exploding (and aliens, or whatever). And the CDC says that, were the film’s plot to actually occur in real life, you shouldn’t try any heroics. Instead, they say…

“In case of an alien invasion, do not attempt to save humankind all by yourself. If an alien asks you to take it to your leader, buy yourself some time by showing it a Lady Gaga music video and dial 9-1-1 while it watches. In the event an international strike force by our world’s greatest celebrity action heroes cannot prevail against the alien fleet, then…well…might as well just sit back and relax with another good disaster movie as you wait for our new alien overlords to tell us what to do.”

So that’s where we are today, in society. If you’re wondering, the rest of the list takes the idea a little more seriously. [via io9]