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Re: Late-breaking news (Community)
Re: Late-breaking news // Community
May 28, 2001, 12:04pm
ROTFLMAO!!!!
Andras
[View Quote]tyrell wrote:
>
> SETI RESEARCHERS ANNOUNCE RECEIVING THE FIRST MESSAGE FROM AN
> ALIEN CIVILIZATION
>
> A team at UC Berkeley has been distributing data gathered by the
> Arecibo Radio Telescope in northwestern Puerto Rico to home
> computers since early 1999 in a distributed computing project
> designed to ferret out possible signals from an extraterrestrial
> civilization.
>
> Those signals have been found! Project leader Seth Liver says,
> "We detected the signal on May 15 at 9:48 PM. Our first reaction
> was to announce the discovery to the press immediately, but we
> collectively decided to wait until translation efforts could
> begin.
>
> "We soon discovered the ETs used the universal language of
> mathematics to encode a primer into the message, making full
> translation surprisingly easy."
>
> What follows is the full content of the first message ever
> received by an alien civilization:
>
> SEND 5 TIMES 10 TO THE 50 ATOMS OF HYDROGEN TO THE STAR SYSTEM AT
> THE TOP OF THE LIST, CROSS OFF THAT STAR SYSTEM, THEN PUT YOUR
> STAR SYSTEM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST AND SEND IT TO 100 OTHER
> STAR SYSTEMS.
>
> WITHIN ONE TENTH OF A GALACTIC ROTATION YOU WILL RECEIVE ENOUGH
> HYDROGEN TO POWER YOUR CIVILIZATION UNTIL THE UNIVERSE
> RECOLLAPSES! IT REALLY WORKS! DO THE MATH!
>
> --
> Tyrell - Alpha Prime - 21.8s 457e 90 - "Mundus vult decipi"
> "Eat well, stay fit, die anyway."
> http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/ty1/index.html
> http://www.dlcwest.com/~rpatter/index.html
> ICQ UN - 272905
> All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
>
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