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Earth Set to Receive Alien Reply in 2015?

gizmodo.com — If all goes well (or very wrong) Earth may receive a message from aliens from the Altair solar system as early as 2015. The message could be a reply to a message sent by two drunk astronomers in 1983.

Who dugg this? Made popular May 15, 2008

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  • fffizzz, on 05/15/2008, -0/+318It would be awesome if the aliens replied while drunk to us as well.
  • BuckNutty, on 05/15/2008, -1/+186I can see it now... The first contact with aliens will probably be 400 more years of back and forth and go something like this... "Hello?", "Hello?", "Hello?", Hello?", "Hello?", "Is that you?", "Who?", "You."... and then asteroid.
  • inactive, on 05/15/2008, -17/+1882015? I'm waiting to see if we make it past 2012.
  • drmsucks, on 05/15/2008, -0/+163"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it
    has tried to contact us." -Calvin (and Hobbes)
  • yokozuka, on 05/15/2008, -0/+107Ah, nothing like sending a message to aliens while drunk to start a good old interplanetary war.
  • sockpuppets, on 05/15/2008, -0/+94They're alcohol based life forms, they get drunk off of water.
  • mCanada, on 05/15/2008, -4/+67We should rickroll those *****.
  • paranoiabacon, on 05/15/2008, -4/+67Altair?

    Oh god, they're going to make us do investigation quests?
  • InuX, on 05/15/2008, -4/+66All our base are belong to them?
  • inactive, on 05/15/2008, -2/+60Start building your nuclear shelters.
  • Berkana, on 05/15/2008, -0/+50Dear aliens: Welcome to Earth, where it rains happy juice, where 75% of our planet's stuff is covered in it.
  • roastedbagel, on 05/15/2008, -0/+47Hell, it'd be awesome to get a hold of the gnarley ***** they drink to get drunk
  • darkciti2, on 05/15/2008, -5/+50"Absssuuulutely, we shuld keep in touch. It's reaaallleeyy aweeeeeeum to have met you fihnallly !!!!!!!"

    (the next morning): "Last night was EPIC! OH *****, what was her frequency?!?"
  • sjbdallas, on 05/15/2008, -0/+43What, no "can you hear me now?"
  • inactive, on 05/15/2008, -0/+40Sign me up for the Colonial Marines. I want to battle the aliens for their precious bodily fluids.
  • chromerium, on 05/15/2008, -2/+38... DESTROY US ALL STOP MESSAGE REPEATS STOP THIS IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSMISSION FROM DEEP SPACE RELAY FIVE SEVEN TWO NINE ALPHA SIX IN REPLY TO CARELESS TRANSMISSION DATED SEVEN FIVE NINE TWO TWO ZERO EIGHT SEVEN POINT SIX FIVE STOP CEASE TRANSMITTING ON ALL ELECTROMAGNETIC FREQUENCIES STOP YOU ARE PUTTING ALL OF US IN DANGER STOP ANCIENT RACE OF MACHINE INTELLIGENCES HAVE DESTROYED MOST TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED CIVILISATIONS STOP ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION INDICATOR OF TECHNOLOGY STOP ON UNRELATED NOTE THANK YOU FOR TRANSMISSION OF QUOTE BLONDIE UNQUOTE STOP ONCE FASTER THAN LIGHT TRANSMISSION SYSTEM BUILT PLEASE COMMUNICATE ALL FURTHER MUSIC FROM QUOTE BLONDIE UNQUOTE STOP MACHINE INTELLIGENCES DO NOT LIKE QUOTE ROCK MUSIC UNQUOTE PLEASE CEASE YOUR TRANSMISSION OF QUOTE ROCK MUSIC UNQUOTE STOP WHILE ENJOYABLE WILL DESTROY US ALL STOP MESSAGE REPEATS ...
  • incd, on 05/15/2008, -1/+34Intergalactic rick rolling!
  • WackyWorld, on 05/15/2008, -0/+37We're going to be judged on what 2 drunk astronomers said?
    We are SCREWED !
  • Dromeciomimus, on 05/15/2008, -0/+30Gives a whole new meaning to drunkdialing.
  • Bith8654, on 05/15/2008, -0/+30well as long as they aren't angry drunks, I think it would be safer if they were baked
  • inactive, on 05/15/2008, -1/+30don't worry our bacterias will save us.
  • MikeonTV, on 05/15/2008, -5/+34You're assuming that it didn't end up in their junk folder. I only check that once every 5 years. Wait! Are they using gmail? Cause the may not have even got the email.
    What am I thinking? Of course they're using gmail!
  • EmitStop, on 05/15/2008, -1/+28No.
  • Nath4n, on 05/15/2008, -0/+26Good luck to them deciphering that message, i'm from Earth and i can't understand a word they're saying!
  • InvertedDonkey, on 05/15/2008, -1/+27thank god it wasn't two drunk lawyers
  • webcrumb, on 05/15/2008, -0/+23What an awesome film that would be.

    "Mr President, what do we do?"
    "Rock. Hard."
  • Berkana, on 05/15/2008, -0/+22Xenuphobia?
  • fyrehart, on 05/15/2008, -6/+28Buried for not having the patience to just wait until 2012 for all the doomsayers to be wrong. Also for CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL.
  • Dante2005, on 05/15/2008, -0/+20I just hope that their message is not OM NOM NOM NOM!
    (ok sorry)
  • theexcavator, on 05/15/2008, -0/+20Love the intergalatic Tom Cruise Stamps.
  • neuens07, on 05/15/2008, -0/+19No, that is just the date the anti-christ was born and now you pissed him off...

    Thanks a lot
  • MAGZine, on 05/15/2008, -1/+18Burried.
  • neuens07, on 05/15/2008, -0/+17I second that
  • grimward, on 05/15/2008, -0/+19and water ! plain ol water!
  • grimward, on 05/15/2008, -0/+15*imagines a planet where it rains ethanol*
  • captnkurt, on 05/15/2008, -0/+15Alcohol-based lifeforms?! But how is our usual method of foreign diplomacy going to ever work if waterboarding is the equivalent of an upside-down margarita?!
  • Lewie, on 05/15/2008, -0/+14IT BURNS!!!
  • geneticlone, on 05/15/2008, -0/+14Why the hell would Aliens fly from who the hell knows where, to drink mexican piss with lime?
  • qwertydvorak, on 05/15/2008, -0/+14at least it wasn't, "dude, i'm sooo high right now..."
  • inactive, on 05/15/2008, -0/+13Interstellar drunk-dialing FTW! Maybe they'll send us the recipe for the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster.
  • BigManOnCampus, on 05/15/2008, -3/+17Maybe they'll come for the Corona... OH NO!!
  • Bartboy919, on 05/15/2008, -5/+20Dude, you know that ***** comes true all the time. I mean just look at 6-6-06, that was surely the end of the world.
  • ortucis, on 05/15/2008, -0/+14Bacterias and wooden doors.
  • ortucis, on 05/15/2008, -1/+13I think we all know what the reply is going to be:"
    Aliens: "Dear earthlings. STOP ***** SPAMMING US WITH YOUR SIGNALS!"


    You read about it first here.
  • moocow1452, on 05/15/2008, -0/+16Our first contact with extraterresrials, and the best we can come up with is "Good Cheers and Toast?!?!"
  • Zephik, on 05/15/2008, -1/+13"...after the jump."

    /wrists


  • MAGZine, on 05/15/2008, -3/+14Mayan Calendar comes to an end....

    it was flawed from day 1, anyhow.
  • pinstripewizard, on 05/15/2008, -0/+11"We're not hosting an intergalactic kegger down here!"
  • robertallen, on 05/15/2008, -0/+12This reminds me of a quote from the 80's during a standup comedy special...

    "...and that's why the aliens will never land. Because they know if they do, we'll take them out, get them drunk, beat the ***** out of them and take their flying saucer." - Gallagher
  • ipek, on 05/15/2008, -0/+11Perhaps we should use Skype or GTalk
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