[Daffynition]

[dfwgator]

“Send more Chuck Berry...”

[WayneS]

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.

[BenLurkin]

I think we should be as quiet as a mouse, until we’re ready and able to destroy everything that might come our way.

[Kartographer]

Be carefull what you wish for.

[frogjerk]

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.

[The Great RJ]

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.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I can’t remember the comedian but he had a bit about how he didn’t think it was a good idea to be beaming messages into space.

What happens if there’s an answer: won’t we feel stupid, then?

“Hey Earth! Welcome! Come on up and visit!”

We’ll 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…..”

[SkyDancer]

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.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

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.

[samtheman]

Aren’t the radio speeches of Hitler and FDR the farthest things out there from earth?

[PoloSec]

Could it be an alien has already arrived.

Think about it does anyone, anywhere, really know, where obama came from?

[DannyTN]

Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated

[GeronL]

Yep, lets tell the universe that we are a planet full of walking meat and easy pickings.

Sounds like a recipe for (their) dinner.

[Vermont Lt]

And lets just put a model of our DNA out there, so when “they” design the weapon to kill us they won’t have any questions of whether it works or not.

How about we fix our own problems first, before we start signaling to whatever is out there.

We will have to deal with that stuff sooner or later anyway.

[GingisK]

It seems that the NSA has already officially announced contact with ETs. There are 29 SETI signals that carry messages; and, twenty nine have been partially decoded:

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/ufo/key_to_et_messages.pdf

NSA Signal Intercept

[THE_RAIDER]

Illegal aliens I know they like bacon and the smell of bacon in the morning, OHH my bad beacon “Never Mind”.

[Fledermaus]

That’s all we need...an Occupy Earth movement.

[Chickensoup]

Let’s build a beacon to tell aliens who we were
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sad. When I saw this thread’s title I thought the poster was talking about illegals and their lack of knowledge about this country and its heritage.

[Bigh4u2]

“Each of the 1,679 signals it contains falls in one of two frequencies”

It’s gonna suck if the aliens receivers are tuned to the wrong frequency...

Should have used ‘spread spectrum’..

[JoeProBono]