"We were a peaceloving people until 'Achey Breaky Heart' - now DIE, Earthlings!"
Posted on 02/07/2008 5:50:54 PM PST by BGHater
"We were a peaceloving people until 'Achey Breaky Heart' - now DIE, Earthlings!"
“We get signal!”
“Main screen turn on!”
I would hope so after Brittany Spears and Fify Cents. Then again, I don't think they really want to come here. It would corrupt whatever culture they have.
5.56mm
Anything by Yoko Ono will surely result in the Earth being vaporized from space.
We’ve already got an alien invasion, so it matters not.
Let the bodies hit the floor...
Hey Earth, do you mind! We’re trying to get some sleep out here.
Yeah, if I were sittin' there in the Sirius star system and got a load of Ginger and Mary Ann I'd be taking the first space ship to Earth for sure. Seriesly.
This was covered in a Science Fiction novel I read a while ago but can’t recall the title. Essentially a planet knows there are bad aliens out there so they shield all outward emissions. The next thing they do is set up a “tar baby” in another system. That planet spews EM on all frequencies at massive levels. It’s like a roach motel...aliens arrive and find...they can’t leave.
It was a neat novel, wish I could remember the name or author.
I’ve heard chilling rumors.........that they are leaving their ships in Mexico, and are sneaking accross the border - unseen. Slipping over here in the dead of night. (The ships would be a dead give-away.)
They are everywhere, now, and if they want you - you don’t have a chance.
Remember that not only physical distance matters in this, that is, the distance from Earth to the nearest world capable of supporting not just life, but intelligent life. It is also a factor of time.
The Earth is estimated to be about 4.5 billion years old. The age of the oldest star in the Milky Way galaxy is about 13 billion years. Life on Earth has existed for about 3.7 billion years, but intelligent life, for less than a few hundred thousand.
And most important of all, intelligent life capable of communicating with another world, for a mere 75 years.
Now granted, for whatever reason, life on Earth was almost wiped out several times, and had to pretty much begin again at a primitive level.
Even if our intelligent species is able to communicate with other worlds and lasts 1 MILLION years, what are the odds that our *time* will intersect with another intelligent species able to communicate with other worlds, even if it lasts 1 MILLION years? Tiny.
Then multiply that time with those great distances found in the galaxy.
Perhaps 1 billion years ago, such a species existed just 1,000 light years away? But it doesn’t matter, because they are long extinct.
Perhaps 50,000 light years away there is another intelligent species right now. It doesn’t matter, because they are too far away. Even if they were looking for intelligent life to communicate with, we are just in one tiny spot, in a galaxy 100,000 light years across, and 1,000 light years thick.
The only way around this problem is a “profusion of intelligent life” theory. But using our planet as a model, that is highly unlikely. In 4.5 billion years, and 3.7 billion years of life, Earth has produced only one known intelligent species. In a profusion of intelligent life theory, it should have produced tens of thousands of intelligent species.
Will beaming songs into space lead to an alien invasion?
It's already working!
Reagan talked about “aliens” in a couple of his speeches (kid you not, I remember useless trivia)
[Before the United Nations General Assembly: “ In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment,” said Reagan, “we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you,” he went on, “is not an alien threat already among us ? What could be more alien to universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?” ]
Yeah, and for some reason they like to congregate in frony of the Home Depot stores!
(half humor ping)
Should we let them know we’re already here?
[I’m here for your TP, and your heavy metal.]
Hell, beam them some heavy metal followed by the “Hillary cackle”, they’ll crap their pants and fly the other way as fast as they can.
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