Posted on 10/10/2006 6:05:27 AM PDT by AmericanDave
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Teotihuacan, once the center of a sprawling pre-Hispanic empire, is set to become the launch pad for an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life.
Starting on Tuesday, enthusiasts from around the world will have a chance to submit text, images, video and sounds that reflect human nature to be included in the message.
Those contributions -- part of media company Yahoo's "Time Capsule" project -- will be digitalized and beamed with a laser into space on October 25 from the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, now an archeological site near Mexico City.
Archeologists say a culture centered in Teotihuacan, known as the City of the Gods, dominated Mesoamerica for hundreds of years during the first millennium. It is unclear what led to the society's collapse.
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Regardless of their life form, they will need a habitable planet to colonize. Their numbers would be growing and needing a place to stay, much like Europe in the 1800's.............Give us your tired, your poor, your many legged, yearning to breathe free.........
That's assuming their birth rates haven't flattened out much like Europe's and Japan's.
Good grief. Can this week get any worse? The phones are ringing off the hook at the CFR. Who was in charge of keeping the lid on this one?
LOL, BUT most illogical: lawyers would NEVER be first anywhere; no clients!
Piquaboy wrote:
They better be careful with that laser or they might put someones eye out,"
THEN we'd need the lawyers!
That would lessen the pressure to colonize and therefore not show up in the first place. If, OTH, they are a war-like race and conquer for the sake of territory and "the glory of the Empire", we would be in deep trouble, because as Napolean said, "If your objective is to take Vienna, then TAKE Vienna." and their objectives would be much the same. We would be a mere annoyance to be swatted away like a mosquito at a picnic............
JamesP81 wrote:
That's assuming their birth rates haven't flattened out much like Europe's and Japan's.
But what if, like Europe they are retreating from radical Muslims?
Those aliens were just doing all the raping, pillaging and human sacrificing that ordinary pre-columbian Americans wouldn't do.
Bush's fault !
Now that's just frightening. Insurance Salesmen... bleagh!
What if their race doesn't have ears? Will they just play frisbee with it?
Alien Insurance Salesman (descending from extremely LARGE and flashy spacecraft mothership, wearing double breasted suit and fedora; Say this is a nice planet you have here, you don't seem to have any defenses from hostile life forms capable of intersteller and faster than light travel. I think I've got just the policy for you right here.... There's a lot of nasty life out here in the Universe and you never know when they might flatten a city or two!
More aliens - hope they don't see the Mexicans as food.
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