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Let's build a beacon to tell aliens who we were
The New Scientist ^
| 02 December 2011
| Chris Wilson
Posted on 12/02/2011 12:53:10 PM PST by Daffynition
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To: Daffynition
“Send more Chuck Berry...”
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posted on
12/02/2011 12:54:13 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(I stand with Herman Cain.)
To: dfwgator
Send more Chuck Berry...
Beat me
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posted on
12/02/2011 12:56:14 PM PST
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
To: Daffynition
I thnk we should broadcast episodes of the Simpsons.
That show seems to pretty accurately address almost every aspect of life in the U.S.
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posted on
12/02/2011 12:57:27 PM PST
by
WayneS
(Comments now include 25 percent more sarcasm for no additional charge...)
To: Daffynition
I think we should be as quiet as a mouse, until we’re ready and able to destroy everything that might come our way.
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posted on
12/02/2011 12:59:15 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Daffynition
Be carefull what you wish for.
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posted on
12/02/2011 12:59:26 PM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Daffynition
Let's build a beacon to tell aliens who we were=give us more tax money to waste.
Build the beacon with your own money and no one would have an issue with it.
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posted on
12/02/2011 1:00:26 PM PST
by
frogjerk
(OBAMA NOV 2012 = HORSEMEAT)
To: Daffynition
I share the concern of Stephen Hawking that we maybe should not advertise who we are and where we are at least someone picking up those signals might come visiting with sinister intent. Better that we just listen first.
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posted on
12/02/2011 1:02:10 PM PST
by
The Great RJ
("The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money" M. Thatcher)
To: Daffynition
I cant remember the comedian but he had a bit about how he didnt think it was a good idea to be beaming messages into space.
What happens if theres an answer: wont we feel stupid, then?
Hey Earth! Welcome! Come on up and visit!
Well have to be all, Um
.say. Could you meet us at the moon? And we can only bring 3 guys
..and one of them is going to have to stay in the car
..
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posted on
12/02/2011 1:03:07 PM PST
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
To: Kartographer
Doesn't LA already have enough illegal aliens with guns? Why would we want these guys to showing up?
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posted on
12/02/2011 1:04:24 PM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Daffynition
Mars Attacks? Independence Day??? I read in history where a giant “X” was carved out in the desert of AZ or NM and lit up with tar or pitch at night as a beacon. Problem was that it diminished to a dot somewhere past the moon; considering geometry and all that.
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posted on
12/02/2011 1:04:57 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("If You Want To Learn To Love Better, You Should Start With A Friend Who You Hate")
To: Kartographer
omg, war of the worlds revisited?
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posted on
12/02/2011 1:05:18 PM PST
by
brivette
To: SkyDancer
Put the X on Congress:

"They blew up Congress....HA HA HA HA!"
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posted on
12/02/2011 1:06:29 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(I stand with Herman Cain.)
To: Daffynition
Yeah. Have the beacon transmit “Gimme gimme gimme and have someone else pay for it.” Any alien with half a brain would steer clear of us after that.
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posted on
12/02/2011 1:06:29 PM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Hey wait a minute you might have something there! Maybe we can sell them our Treasury Bonds!
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posted on
12/02/2011 1:07:52 PM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Daffynition
Aren’t the radio speeches of Hitler and FDR the farthest things out there from earth?
To: dfwgator
Only wish. I wonder if Slim Whitman could be played over some large dish pointed at the skies and see what may blow up.
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posted on
12/02/2011 1:08:39 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("If You Want To Learn To Love Better, You Should Start With A Friend Who You Hate")
To: The Great RJ
That always struck me as a pointless notion - I doubt an aggressive alien species would be able to reach the level of shear technological power needed for viable interstellar travel, without first destroying itself.
Plus, it’s unlikely we’d have anything to offer that wouldn’t be “economically” easier to find closer to their own system.
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posted on
12/02/2011 1:11:44 PM PST
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
To: frogjerk
For the beacon placement, North Korea is out of the running.
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posted on
12/02/2011 1:14:28 PM PST
by
Daffynition
( *Socialism, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore it*)
To: Daffynition
Could it be an alien has already arrived.
Think about it does anyone, anywhere, really know, where obama came from?
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posted on
12/02/2011 1:15:18 PM PST
by
PoloSec
( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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