SW01 Posted October 10, 2008 Posted October 10, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7660449.stm A planet 20 lightyears from earth had the misfortune of being chosen to receive 501 messages, photographs and texts from a competition held on Bebo, transmitted in binary form. It is thought that this planet is likely to be capable of sustaining life, though why they would want mesages from Bebo I can't imagine! What do you think about this? And, out of interest, what would you want to send, given the option?
HerbieZ Posted October 11, 2008 Posted October 11, 2008 I'd rather it was 501 Bebo users sent up into space but no one said life is fair. I'm thinking any planet receiving this massive spam bomb of teenage relationship angst stories and irrelevant crap ought to start massing an invasion fleet soon. Personally i'd send them a standard greeting and ask them to take me back to their world, teach them what love is etc. /shatner
Darth333 Posted October 11, 2008 Posted October 11, 2008 The competition - A Message From Earth - invited Bebo's 12m users to send in missives they would like extra-terrestrials to receive. Great...now we are polluting other systems with spam...
Litofsky Posted October 11, 2008 Posted October 11, 2008 Well, if it's 20 million lightyears away, I don't think we'll have to worry in our lifetime. But seriously, I'd probably send a short history of humanity and maybe some of our 'great accomplishments.' Great accomplishments as is social achievements, not technological, in this case. If another civilization's receiving this, I'd would want them to see some of our advances as a people.
Nedak Posted October 11, 2008 Posted October 11, 2008 Some Alien will probably be on his computer chatting it up on a nAlien Myspace, and all of a sudden his computer will go insane with a bunch of pictures of Earth will pop-up and he'll be like "what the ****?!" Then it will crash his computer and cause his girlfriend to break up with him. This dude then goes crazy and destroys the universe. Yepp, my theory. Just call me Stephen ****ing Hawkins
Tyrion Posted October 11, 2008 Posted October 11, 2008 Let's just hope the aliens can't translate English. "Want to please your lady with a little something extra?" "Bigger is always better, and doubly so when it's within your pants." "I am a Nigerian prince, looking for a bank account to deposit my funds..." "Penis growth big time for free?"
Istorian Posted October 11, 2008 Posted October 11, 2008 Let's start preparing Earth's defense...The women and children will be sent on Mars, and the men will barricade the Moon as a first defense line, and if it falls we must battle on our planet...These aliens must be going crazy, why are they attacking us? Alien: No more earth spam!! |I|
SW01 Posted October 11, 2008 Author Posted October 11, 2008 Indeed - Bebo Wars here we come! The thing that struck me was the dopey presumption that any intelligent life would be able to speak English. But, if they are anything like me, they'll get an unknown message in their inboxes and delete it! "So if anybody's out there and they find that signal, they at least know it that, in the direction of that star system over there, there must be a planet with some pretty clever things on it." - Seth Shostak, SETI Topics submitted ranged from the environment, politics and world peace to family relationships and the sender's first kiss. Politics - not really the best advertisement for earth... World Peace - "Ooooo...pacifists!" Sender's first kiss - *reaches for spam button*
Hallucination Posted October 11, 2008 Posted October 11, 2008 I'd have sent ASCII boobs, but apparently that would've been too useful.
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