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| World likely to be destroyed by alien death ray in 2049 |
| 2009-08-29 |
"The Sundries Shack"
Is this really how we want to put our best foot forward in a potential first contact situation?
A total of 25,880 text messages will be broadcast into space, transmitted 20.3 light-years to Gliese 581d. . . .
Great. So if there is an advanced civilization on Gliese 581d, the very first communication it’ll get from us will be a two-hour long text spam attack....
The story says that the messages will take about twenty years to arrive. That gives us all about forty years before Earth is destroyed by a planet-annihilating death ray from Gliese 581d in 2049. Like the Cats said, “You have no chance to survive make your time.” |
| Posted by:Mike |