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Written by Scott Meadow
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Friday, 03 December 2004 (read 1988 times) |
Having perfected the fine art of spamming here on earth, this guy at the SETI Institute wants to
start exporting it to the stars by beaming the entire
contents of the World Wide Web
out to E.T. over infrared
lasers or microwaves. The idea here is that the sheer quantity of
information present on the human internet -- it'll take two days to
transmit the whole thing over high speed communication -- would act as
a "Rosetta" stone for the short grey guys out there trying to make
sense of it. I mean sure, why not?
"mal-Druck, why do they eject so much genetic material over each other?"
Can you imagine what conclusions an alien race would arrive
at after studying earth's internet? I don't know about you, but
if this guy gets his wish, I think it'd make Independence
Day look like a sappily optimistic portrayal of
human-alien interaction. The only upside here is that it'd probably take a few
hundred or even thousand years for them to come and enslave us for constructing Pauly Shore fansites.
Well, at least all of that porn wouldn't translate very well between
species....
So, I guess we should start watching what we write around here, 'cause
pretty soon we're gonna have readers around Sirius B, who'll no doubt
be huge George Dubya fans and thus subject us to vigorous amounts of anal probing.
Should I start writing my columns in both Klingon and English?
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