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Re: Send your name to the asteroid belt
« on: November 01, 2006, 01:20:05 PM »
Actually, given that (IIRC - apologies for inaccuracy but I can't be arsed to google for exact timescales) the Pioneer & Voyager probes are expected to have a journey time of 50,000 years before they encounter another solar system, I think it's appropriate that they carry a message from the builders of the probes to the stars.  

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Re: Send your name to the asteroid belt
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2006, 08:30:49 AM »
The Voyagers carry gold phonograph records containing greetings in many languages and also a selection of music from the year 1977 when they were launched.

I can just picture a sophisticated and intelligent alien race trying to decipher "Anarchy in the UK"...  Although I very much doubt the Pistols made it into space.

Maybe the sage scholars of the planet Vulcan would rather Perry Como?
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Re: Send your name to the asteroid belt
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2006, 06:16:50 PM »
The resulting Blob/Bloodline seminal stocking hybrid would be far too dangerous to unleash...  Imagine the calamity if it eascaped/evolved?

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Re: Send your name to the asteroid belt
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2006, 12:12:28 AM »
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haha!!

It might well turn out to be something clammy with a dry sense of humour.
A sort of amphibian Jimmy Carr


With a bit of a north of the borders twang...

Imagine when man finally sets foot on Mars and the landing craft is besiged by stiff socks en masse all chanting 'och aye!'

Even more horrifying than anything Wells could conjure up.
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Re: Send your name to the asteroid belt
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2006, 01:42:08 PM »
Hahaha!  

Karlos, you're a very sick man my friend...

That's a compliment BTW!
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