TV? DOEZ NOT WANT

[tamaranth]

A television company has joined forces with a social networking site to send a message to the nearest theoretically inhabitable planet.

In a letter to the Daily Telegraph, former BBC News website science editor Dr David Whitehouse raised the possibility that transmissions from Earth could draw the attention of "malevolent aliens".

Personally, am more concerned that aliens will run screaming from LOLCats / Facebook* apps / photos of drunken colleagues than that they will demand reparation for Bonekickers or Torchwood. Though the latter would be only fair.

* it's Bebo, not Facebook, but I am not prepared to check out Bebo just to see if they too have Li'l Green Patch and Scrabulous

Comments

[realthog.livejournal.com]

I wonder how much the Beeb paid the person who wrote the picture caption on the page you link to: "Gliese C is a very long way away."

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

Personally, am more concerned that aliens will run screaming from LOLCats / Facebook* apps / photos of drunken colleagues than that they will demand reparation for Bonekickers or Torchwood. Though the latter would be only fair.

I can't help feeling that either may account for why we've never heard from them!

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

"....and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space/
'cause there's bugger all down here on earth".

Eric Idle got it right 25 years ago.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Bebo is a really awful networking utility for teenagers. My kid brother has an account. Most of the stuff I see from his friends is unintelligable.