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Animated GIF to be beamed into space as part of alien communication effort
The Verge ^ | 6/17/13 | Jacob Kastrenakes

Posted on 06/17/2013 12:46:28 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: LibWhacker

yeah, because they’ll obviously know the format
/face palm

bitmap... monochrome... the only format easily deciphered

of course, I’m in the same camp as the deep space scientist in “battleship”... this is just a bad idea. the friendly ones have no reason to show up and talk to the technological equivalent of frogs.

the bad ones... they like frog legs...


101 posted on 06/17/2013 3:26:41 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: LibWhacker

On Gliese 526 that gesture is a declaration of war.


102 posted on 06/17/2013 3:28:22 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Slyfox

LOL..spot on.


103 posted on 06/17/2013 3:53:36 PM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: Silentgypsy
Are they trying to nauseate the aliens?

I am.

104 posted on 06/17/2013 4:01:52 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein)
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To: a fool in paradise
Send more Chuck Berry
105 posted on 06/17/2013 4:06:37 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy ( Because police powers are essential to the public good that abusing them is so offensive.)
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To: Liberty Valance

HA I almost swallowed my cigar butt!


106 posted on 06/17/2013 4:13:58 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: MrB

You guys are cracking me up! What a relief from the cop shooting kittens thread.


107 posted on 06/17/2013 4:15:24 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

You are a smashing success, if my rxn is any index.


108 posted on 06/17/2013 4:30:34 PM PDT by Silentgypsy
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To: Darksheare

Git. Year. Sari. But. Odor. Hear.


109 posted on 06/17/2013 4:41:06 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: Bubba_Leroy; Salamander

Salamander did that, dinshe?


110 posted on 06/17/2013 4:44:56 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: null and void

It's why they take the cows...

111 posted on 06/17/2013 4:49:59 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: a fool in paradise
Metaphysical bananas


112 posted on 06/17/2013 4:56:57 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Beam this


113 posted on 06/17/2013 4:59:35 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Is that registered?


114 posted on 06/17/2013 5:03:34 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)
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To: null and void
I am already here.
I have always been here.


115 posted on 06/17/2013 5:48:59 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: null and void

Oh, hell no.

Best way in the world to give your dog OCD.

No lasers, here.

[just lotsa whips and spikes]

;D


116 posted on 06/17/2013 7:37:06 PM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...the clowns will eat me.)
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To: Salamander

What if the image they send doesn’t work on the alien computer and it is interpreted as a declaration of war?


117 posted on 06/17/2013 7:38:20 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: GeronL
Then we send this.


118 posted on 06/17/2013 7:40:09 PM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...the clowns will eat me.)
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To: GeronL
Or this...no one can be mad at this.


119 posted on 06/17/2013 7:41:24 PM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...the clowns will eat me.)
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To: Salamander

What if that were a vile image to their society?


120 posted on 06/17/2013 7:42:29 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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