Posted on 08/14/2009 5:12:45 AM PDT by Schnucki
When ET phoned home in 1982, a whole generation dreamed of finding extra-terrestrial life.
One inspired moviegoer was Australia’s eccentric science minister Kim Carr.
Today he launched a bizarre scheme encouraging citizens to send messages into outer space with the hope of discovering other beings.
And, by logging on to a website, hundreds have already sent missives to Gliese 581d, the only know planet that - since it resembles Earth – could support life.
Some have asked aliens to help find lost socks, while others invited non-earthlings from planet Gliese 581d over for a cup of tea.
In what is believed to be the world's first attempt to make contact with the planet, Mr Carr himself got the ball rolling.
‘Hello from Australia on the planet we call Earth,’ he wrote.
‘These messages express our people’s dreams for the future. We want to share those dreams with you.’
The only catch to his vision of uniting peoples from across the universe is that takes 20.3 light years for the messages to reach the planet.
And, with no information on who or what might receive them, the answer could come whizzing back - or take an eternity.
Whether aliens will be able to understand English has also not deterred Mr Carr.
Afterwards, he said: 'As a child I, like many Australians, stared up at the stars and wondered what was out there.
'Now science has allowed me to send a personal message that may answer that question.' Gliese, whose 'years' last just 66.8 days and was discovered in 2007, is eight times the size of Earth and 120 trillion miles away.
The invitation to Australians to try to reach an alien life form has been launched to mark National Science Week.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) cult is looking for non-randomly coded sequences. They once thought that the emanations from pulsars might be these.
By my reckoning, I can see signs of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, non-randomly coded sequences, everywhere I look in nature, whether through the telescope, through the microscope, or just looking around.
Of course, it’s not the Extraterrestrian Intelligence that the SETI cultists want to know.
What is it now underling?
We have intercepted that signal again. And this time we traced it!
Well...
It's coming from the system ahead. Long range scans report over Six Billion life forms... And Lord. They are made of...Meat!
Underling, alter course full ahead shenanigan drive!
And UNDERLING. warm the gravy tubes...
I couldn’t care less about finding intelligent life. The most valuable life is the life we can eat.
Stop sending me interstellar spam!
E.T.s are more likely to find us inedible than tasty. My concern is the 50% chance that they are even more corrupt than humans.
Flame-broiled humans........mmmmmmmmmmm
One thing you can be certain of... If there actually is anybody out there with a real need to communicate over cosmic distances, they will not be trying to do it with radio waves; that would be entirely like me trying to communicate with German relatives by splashing rocks in Baltimore harbor and hoping the Germans might read the message in the ripple waves. The one thing we know about which is basically fast enough for communication over cosmic distances is gravity.
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