What Do You Say to An Extraterrestrial?

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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My fisrt message to ET would be: "Hello Joe!"

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

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2 posted on 12/02/2004 7:41:52 PM PST by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)

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To: KevinDavis

"Phone Home!"

3 posted on 12/02/2004 7:42:13 PM PST by Old Sarge (In for a penny, in for a pound, saddlin' up and Baghdad-bound!)

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To: KevinDavis

How's it hangin'?

4 posted on 12/02/2004 7:42:43 PM PST by dc-zoo

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To: KevinDavis

Don't eat my brains, and yes you can have sex with me as long as I don't give birth to the next Predator.

5 posted on 12/02/2004 7:43:29 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: KevinDavis

What Do You Say to An Extraterrestrial?

Nice to meet you, Mr. Kucinich.
(however you spell the name of that strange Democrat...)

6 posted on 12/02/2004 7:43:31 PM PST by VOA

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To: KevinDavis

Nanoo-nanoo?

7 posted on 12/02/2004 7:43:40 PM PST by Preech1 (God, Bless America Please!)

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To: KevinDavis

don't you mean "Heeeeyyy, Joe, I heard you shot your old lady down..."

8 posted on 12/02/2004 7:43:55 PM PST by gotmatt

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To: KevinDavis

Well HI there!

9 posted on 12/02/2004 7:43:57 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)

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To: KevinDavis

"Pull my finger."

10 posted on 12/02/2004 7:44:18 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)

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To: Preech1

Shazbot

11 posted on 12/02/2004 7:44:31 PM PST by Pro-Bush (liberal relatives and holidays! ..A good year for Freepers.)

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To: KevinDavis

Your movie Farenheit 9/11 was crap and you are a fat a$$hole.

12 posted on 12/02/2004 7:45:24 PM PST by Casloy

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To: KevinDavis

KLATOO BARADA NICTO!

13 posted on 12/02/2004 7:46:23 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo ("When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk!")

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To: KevinDavis

Well here in Louisiana we'd say nothing, but we would get our shotguns out, start a roux, and put on a pot of rice.