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- navitatl, on 12/20/2007, -2/+59I say we beam up Goatse.
- Lane, on 12/20/2007, -0/+24yes lets invite more anal probes.....
- MiltonWaddams, on 12/20/2007, -1/+24Link to the f'ing article: http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13096-et-t ...
- pixelbender, on 12/20/2007, -1/+2109 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
- down4twenty, on 12/20/2007, -0/+19" It seems the Humans have developed nuclear missle capabilities"
"What? They're displaying intelligence?"
"No, they have them pointed at each other" - DeskFlyer, on 12/20/2007, -1/+19http://www.nearingzero.net/screen_res/nz229.jpg
- Lane, on 12/20/2007, -2/+19I bet earth is a dud. full of resources every flippin other planet contains and extremely out of the way. we arent in the center of the galaxy but way out of one of the spirals. who wants to visit the intergalactic ghetto for stuff you can pick up anywhere? only 100 elements existing in their natural states?? why bother.....
- vsrkm, on 12/20/2007, -6/+22good point. any 'space-man' would likely find our physics too simple. so, these guys being canadian should send out 'slap shot' in binary eh, or maybe the first season of the rick mercer report.
- houndeyex, on 12/20/2007, -0/+16Or we could broadcast The Red Green Show out into space? Making everything with duct tape is clearly more interesting than physics and hockey.
- chestr, on 12/20/2007, -0/+14Maybe try sending them Ron Paul in 2008 messages. Seems to get everyone else excited right?
- rolf, on 12/20/2007, -0/+13The answer is simple: pron. Our universal language.
Seriously, has a porn movie ever really needed translation? - xGeneric, on 12/20/2007, -0/+13Hmmm, see I never go under the assumption that any race of superior intelligence would be peaceful because of it. After all, our evolved intelligence has lead to more evolved weapons. I say if they can travel the cosmos to get to our planet, then they damn well better have a death ray that even Professor Hubert Farnsworth would find impressive. Anything less, and I am not impressed.
Though if they once had a violent past, and have evolved into a peaceful race, only to turns its nose(if they have one) up at us lesser races, instead of trying to provide insight and wisdom, well then that just seems a bit... small minded. Silly aliens. - DocHoliday22, on 12/20/2007, -0/+12Nah any alien that is intelligent would want to find out where that signal came from... even out of boredom.
- MadScientist68, on 12/20/2007, -7/+18This is great! I can so relate to this. In fact, they are probably laughing at us on the one hand, horrified on the other at the violence we perpetrate on each other, and bored as well. They more than likely have better nuts to crack so to speak.
- OverlordXenu, on 12/20/2007, -0/+10http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html
- cococooky, on 12/20/2007, -2/+12If I was an alien, and I kept picking up movies from earth about humans killing aliens in a variety of different ways, I would not let you know I was there either. I would stay the ***** away from them crazy bastards.
- cococooky, on 12/20/2007, -1/+11Do that and they might decide to point their Death Ray at us....
- venicerocco, on 12/20/2007, -0/+10Meh. They're so smart they sweep our messages aside, but not curious about another life form in a universe where life is rare? Ich don't think so.
- BlackCow, on 12/20/2007, -1/+10I say we rick roll the galaxy!
- fasda, on 12/20/2007, -0/+9or they could be thinking we were easily invadeable 300 years ago when the message was sent.
- LordEsoterica, on 12/20/2007, -0/+9I believe the point of sending scientific information is to say "Hey, we have intelligent brains!" Though a bloody epic should be good, like Beowulf or the Iliad.
- myFriendDerrik, on 12/20/2007, -3/+12Do they know about lolcats?
- Varz, on 12/20/2007, -0/+8what bs
If life is as rare as it seems (with intelligent life being invariably rarer) than i'm sure they would make contact just for the sake of discovery.
The reason SETI even exists is simply to find other intelligent life, the assertion of knowledge from other life is maybe a possible bonus. If they have a some drive for discovery like humans than they most probably would feel the same. - mklopez, on 12/20/2007, -2/+10Coincidentally I was listening to the last episode of TWIT and they were talking about exchanging signals with remote planets... and how, given the long times involved between messages (many years, at the speed of light) the only topics that would make sense are kind of self-contained non-solicited messages that dont require or expect a response... yeah, the best interplanetary communication method we have is SPAM!
Anybody wants to bet that in a few centuries we will have a galactic-sized usenet / IRC / twitter-style chat room? - houndeyex, on 12/20/2007, -1/+9If they were intelligent don't you think they'd try to figure it out? I don't think we'd go, "Oh look, signals and crap from out of nowhere in outer space. Too bad we don't understand them. Guess I'll go have a beer."
- banmaster, on 12/20/2007, -2/+9Perhaps they might like 2girls1cup?
- RedHeadedFreak, on 12/20/2007, -0/+7It's fake.
- navitatl, on 12/20/2007, -0/+6They'll say "wow, we have a lot of room to play with here!" and they'll invent a probe with all of the most popular and useful features. The probe will be giant. Best wishes to the first person who experiences the new model.
- anteyekon4myst, on 12/20/2007, -4/+10Well E.T. can kiss my big black ass!
- chsbrgr, on 12/20/2007, -0/+6but it would be really awkward when they come peacefully, bearing delicious treats.
- KloroFormd, on 12/20/2007, -1/+7Send the message "idk, my bff jill" and they'll likely think there's no intelligent life out there.
- fasda, on 12/20/2007, -5/+10Why is it that its assumed that any ET are any smarter then us to begin with? since we aren't getting any signals from them for the last few decades it might be a good assumption thats theres no one listening anywhere near (even in the galactic sense of the word) us.
- Keitosha, on 12/20/2007, -0/+5"I am spamming in outer space.... to find another race.
I am spamming in outer space.... to find another race"
/singing - aladrin, on 12/20/2007, -0/+5Yes, because finding other intelligent life in the universe would be SO boring to them.
The message itself matters not a whit. What matters is that there -is- a message. - Langford, on 12/20/2007, -0/+5Our signals are too boring? If thats the case, I'm not sure I even want to meet these alien jerks.
- cococooky, on 12/20/2007, -1/+6That's all I need. Competition.
- damnyooneek, on 12/20/2007, -0/+4hahaha
- fasda, on 12/20/2007, -0/+4but my point is we don't hear anything from the other end if there is a race capable of understanding our signals why on earth aren't they making any signals. I don't mean a direct message like hello earth but any TV or Radio broadcasts which I would assume would go hand in hand with the ability to receive our signals
- fasda, on 12/20/2007, -1/+5and if we do find such snobs we'll be able to invade them easy
- DamnMan, on 12/20/2007, -2/+6Arrogance has nothing to do with it. do we have any real reason to believe we wouldn't be the upper limit? Any real reason why they would be more intelligent? In the realm of the scientific and mathematic is the probability that aliens are hyper advanced any more likely than they are a planet full of Forest Gumps? Based on the sample size you yourself sight we have just as much reason to believe we are just as if not the most technologically advanced race in the universe. Arrogant or not when dealing strictly with the facts its no less likely than anything else.
The vary notion of arrogance in this context is an error in our logic. We are essentially discounting entire possibilities because we just don't FEEL that its likely. - addictist, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3God knows I am board by them.
- rolf, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3Alien 3: "Look, a talking chimpanzee!"
- jonshipman, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3Thanks for all the fish!
- RedHeadedFreak, on 12/20/2007, -1/+4Aren't they making one huge assumption? We may be the smartest beings in the universe. If the macro-evolutionists are correct, it's astronomical, probability-wise, that we are even here in the state we are in. I'd love to believe, but I'm a skeptic.
- inactive, on 12/20/2007, -3/+6I for one welcome our New "Giant feature full probe" wielding overlords.
- cococooky, on 12/20/2007, -1/+4The technology they use to communicate might be so far advanced of our tech, that we haven't invented it yet - we don't have a device that can pick it up.
Also, with our type of communication - radio waves - which has only been in use for about 110 years, it will take about 70 thousand years for those signals to reach the far side of the milky way. It will take 2.2 million years to reach the Andromeda galaxy, the closest galaxy to us similar to the milky way.
Civilizations could have lived and died, and the messages they sent could still be 10 billion years away if they used radio waves. - Rodalli, on 12/20/2007, -1/+4This was a ***** awesome read. Thank you.
- crushfan, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3Hahaha, I know, but I wonder the story behind it. Hahaha, really you made me laugh out loud.
- Thex1138, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3We're asking the wrong questions the wrong way...
If you're able to travel through interstellar space between stars or galaxies [possibly] then wouldn't you want a more rapid method of transmitting and receiving information? We know it takes a long time for radio waves and light to reach other locations out there..it's a given...
So what's a faster method of transporting data across these distances might be a better question?
..also the interface to send receive the data...from 'them to us'
If we take a WiFi device back 100 years..no one's gonna know how to receive the message or send us a message..and vice versa..
It might end up being as blatant as arriving face to face and saying G'Day mate! with a hand shake and a smile :-) - SevenTwo, on 12/20/2007, -1/+4If only we'd send ships out full of Reese' Pieces..
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