The six-word plea scientists aim to send before mysterious interstellar object reaches Earth

UK Daily Mail ^ | 8/12/2025 | Stacy Liberatore

[Reily]

He’s still infatuated with Star Trek!

[null and void]

PUHleeeeze do not eat us all!...

[Seruzawa]

Very few signals from Earth would have the strength to be detected from more than a handful of light years.

[Disambiguator]

Maybe it will get sucked into the gravitational field of Uranus.

(Whoops)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That’s retarded.

[Vesuvian]

“Greetings! Piece? Very well, as we are compassionate beings we shall grant you your wish and rend you into pieces. Honestly, we were just going to vaporize you painlessly, but since you insist!”

[doorgunner69]

Zot NYC and Wash DC please

SF and Chicongo if you have charge left over.

[Political Junkie Too]

According to Wikipedia...

3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object confirmed passing through the Solar System, after 1I/ʻOumuamua (discovered in October 2017) and 2I/Borisov (discovered in August 2019).

And we all know that the Ramans do everything in threes!!!

-PJ

[EQAndyBuzz]

And directions to where a good egg roll can be found.

[Charles Martel]

Agreed, no need to wave and shout at that thing. It might just turn out to be something unpleasant.

[EnderWiggin1970]

I volunteer to lead the counter-strike on their home world if they vivisect any of our welcoming party.

[MtnClimber]

Just ask it to do a divide by zero calculation. That will keep it occupied until it is long gone.

[Jim Noble]

“Come any closer it’s E=mc2”

[Colorado Doug]

And they have a six word response.
"We are here to serve man. "

[Jim Noble]

“Klaatu. Barada. Nikto”

[Mouton]

Remember they will eat the fat ones first.

[frank ballenger]

I forgot once again the 1950s SF film in which a trusting priest or minister reads from the Bible as he walks up a ramp toward the alien spaceship and gets burned up by a heat ray.

[frank ballenger]

And as sportscaster Bob Costas said:
“They can put a man on the moon but nobody outside of Brooklyn can make a decent egg cream.” 🥛

[frank ballenger]

Better to take bids on corporations like naming of sports stadiums.
High bid gets the advertising message which is quoted across the world news outlets.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

With all the coherent radio transmissions eminating from earth, any half way sophisticated sensor at that range would detect that there is a technologically advanced civilization on earth.

The puny antennas on Voyager can pick up signals from nine billion miles. I am certain the earth fairly glows red hot in the radio frequency spectrum.