Initially I did a spit take because it just seems so silly, just preposterous. But on second thought Seth Abramson is not a jokester he's a pretty serious researcher so let's wait and see but could this be the beginning of alien apocalypse dystopia blah blah blah.....??
Hate it break it to you, but even if we are 'able to rise above the mundane', this weird thing called the material conditions of existence keep popping up and have a far greater affect than any traveller.