Posted on 06/26/2012 9:48:24 AM PDT by Sopater
If there's something you'd like to say to aliens, now's your chance. The Wow! signal, a mysterious radio transmission detected in 1977 that may or may not have come from extraterrestrials, is finally getting a response from humanity. Anyone can contribute his or her two cents — or 140 characters, to be exact — to the cosmic reply via Twitter.
All tweets composed between 8 p.m. EDT Friday (June 29) and 3 a.m. EDT Saturday (June 30) tagged with the hashtag #ChasingUFOs will be rolled into a single message, according to the National Geographic Channel, which is timing the Twitter event to coincide with the premiere of the channel's new series, "Chasing UFOs."
Then on Aug. 15, exactly 35 years after the Wow! signal was detected, humanity's crowdsourced message will be beamed into space in the direction from which the perplexing signal originated.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Health care, and a few bucks from Obama’s stash!/s;)
MAD Magazine wrote in 1963 that terrestrial radio & TV signals do not die, but instead drift off into space. As a result, the following alien message was intercepted:
“If you continue to send us reruns of `The Gail Storm Show’, we shall have no alternative but to DESTROY YOUR PLANET!”
;^)
it’s kinda like we’re standing atop a mountain yelling for attention...maybe we wouldn’t like the attention we’d be getting. what then?
I recall reading that the people involved with this signal now think it was nothing more than a ground signal, that reflected off of a satellite or piece of space debris.
“Have you seen Elvis?”
why would an alien race bother coming to earth? if they could come here, they’d be hundreds, if not thousands, of years technologically superior to us
why would they bother?
what does earth offer? cultural enrichment? oh please. do you look to the frogs around the lake for their ‘culture’? of course not.
resources? hardly. plenty out there. there are massive amounts of water and other materials available
then what would the earth have that they can’t find readily?
... MEAT ...
they’d stop by to see if this planet has tasty meat bags... and they’d find 6 billion of them
Then think really hard about whether we want to respond
Send cash!
6E EQU J5?!!
If this interstellar species thinks the Jackson 5 is sexy (J5=6e), then they are not intelligent and we should steer clear.
Crap - just what we need; another cookbook.
How about: “We’re not in at the moment, please leave a message at the sound of the beep.”
Buy more Ovaltine
No, they'll just think we're 17.5 (=35/2) light years further off than we actually are. I mean, what's five parsecs (give or take) between civilizations?
Heh.
I personally will never discount the possibility of off-world life that may well indeed be vastly superior to us.
Aside from the “meat-bag” theory, in my darker moments, I like to think we’re the zoo of the M1 Galaxy. A source of fascination and amusement to no end.
Who knows? When the “UFO’s” zip around, maybe it’s like when you and I and everyone else stops in front of the primate cage and watch them fling their poo at each other. Provided UFO’s are not just strictly figments of the imagination or what have you, I’m sure whoever/whatever is piloting them is probably having a good laugh at our expense.
Personally, I can’t blame them.
Buy more Slurm.
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