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When the Aliens Attack, It'll Be in Retaliation for Beaming Up Justin Timberlake Songs
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
11:04:00 AM EDT
Hearing Weird Science -- Hello Goodbye
I'm not saying that there is life out there. But if it is, does it really want our spam?
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.
Of course, our radio and TV has been leaking out into the universe for decades. I expect alien humanitarian rescues of the people on Lost and Gilligan's Island any day now. And also their demand for more showings of War of the Worlds, which is sure to be viewed as a participatory comedy, a la Rocky Horror Picture Show. Those aliens, they sure are weird.
Any sort of cultural artifact you'd want to beam into space? In a good way, I mean.
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11:04:00 AM EDT
Hearing Weird Science -- Hello Goodbye
When the Aliens Attack, It'll Be in Retaliation for Beaming Up Justin Timberlake Songs
I'm not saying that there is life out there. But if it is, does it really want our spam?
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.
Of course, our radio and TV has been leaking out into the universe for decades. I expect alien humanitarian rescues of the people on Lost and Gilligan's Island any day now. And also their demand for more showings of War of the Worlds, which is sure to be viewed as a participatory comedy, a la Rocky Horror Picture Show. Those aliens, they sure are weird.
Any sort of cultural artifact you'd want to beam into space? In a good way, I mean.
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Some People have been watching too many movies...lol...
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is george bush a cultural artifact?!?
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I can see it now: "Hey aliens! Get your V1ag7a, Britney pics and Pro7z4c. Russian singles want 2 meet U."
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We should do what we did to the Indians, and send Smallpox up there. I want outer space to be nice and empty when we finally get to hanging out up there.
10/11/06 11:24 PM