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What Do You Say to An Extraterrestrial?
space.com ^ | 12/02/04 | Seth Shostak

Posted on 12/02/2004 7:40:49 PM PST by KevinDavis

I once thought that worrying about what we should broadcast to extraterrestrials made as much sense as fretting over the small talk I’d venture with King Carl XVI Gustaf if I won the Nobel Prize. I reckoned there was no need to dwell on the problem, as it was both hypothetical and irrelevant.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: alien; alienlife; aliens; artbell; et; etphonehome; extra; extraterrestrial; flyingobject; martian; myfavoritemartian; outer; outerspace; space; terrestrial; ufo; ufos; unidentifiedflying
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To: Zathras

"Why the long face?"


121 posted on 12/03/2004 12:31:48 PM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: KevinDavis

unnngh..


122 posted on 12/03/2004 12:34:18 PM PST by evets (God bless president George W. Bush)
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To: Quix
We come in peace! Shoot to kill!


123 posted on 12/03/2004 12:41:29 PM PST by airborne (God bless and keep our fallen heroes.)
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To: KevinDavis
"Great, another illegal alien!"
124 posted on 12/03/2004 12:42:13 PM PST by RoarkMan (no tag line entered)
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To: KevinDavis

"I've heard of out-sourcing but this is ridiculous!"


125 posted on 12/03/2004 12:48:12 PM PST by headsonpikes (Another five-fingered Canadian... ;^))
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To: airborne

Cute.


HOWEVER, Welllllllllllll,

it appears that the leader is just around the corner who will

"WAGE WAR WITH PEACE [a very false peace]"

according to The Bible.


126 posted on 12/03/2004 12:58:30 PM PST by Quix (5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
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To: KevinDavis
What Do You Say to An Extraterrestrial?

"You're new around here, aren't you?"

"Do you come here often?"

"How 'bout them Steelers!"

The other thing to do is to pretend he looks like everyone else so as not to *offend* him by racially profiling him.

127 posted on 12/03/2004 1:05:12 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (if a man lives long enough, he gets to see the same thing over and over.)
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To: KevinDavis

"Why do you have against cows?"


128 posted on 12/03/2004 1:06:33 PM PST by conservonator (Blank by popular demand)
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To: conservonator

What = why


129 posted on 12/03/2004 1:07:36 PM PST by conservonator (Blank by popular demand)
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To: KevinDavis

"Hey, did you know that liberals, besides being fat free, are a great source of nutrition?"







Hehehe


130 posted on 12/03/2004 1:13:04 PM PST by Mr. Jazzy (Lets all see how many days Kerry shows up for his job in the Senate, NOW!!!)
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To: KevinDavis

"Didn't you used to play for the LA Rams???"

 

 

131 posted on 12/03/2004 1:29:04 PM PST by Fintan (Someday we''ll look back on this and plow into a parked car...)
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To: KevinDavis

I once read a sci fi story where a federation of aliens nuked us for sending p0rn to them on the Voyager probes. :D


132 posted on 12/03/2004 1:34:54 PM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: KoRn

Starscream was definitely gay, in incredibly annoying to boot.

And for some reason when I was a kid, I always associated Optimus Prime with Ronald Reagan. :P


133 posted on 12/03/2004 1:40:40 PM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: RandallFlagg

He he, looks like the Alien's been eating Mexican again.

*bubbles*


134 posted on 12/03/2004 1:41:31 PM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: Modernman

I have AA for extraterrestrials.


135 posted on 12/03/2004 4:07:58 PM PST by cyborg ( Hy verkwik my siel; Hy lei my in die spore van geregtigheid, om sy Naam ontwil.)
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To: VOA

Would you like to be the next democratic candidate for the presidency? Because the past candidates have quite a lot in common with you.


136 posted on 12/03/2004 4:10:03 PM PST by katdawg
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