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REMEMBER a few weeks ago we reported that the public had been invited to send a message into space?
Well, this afternoon, poor Gliese 581d — a planet 20 light years away with no prior convictions — was bombarded with a giant wad of Earth spam.
More than 25,000 messages were hurtled toward the planet in a chunk of data that took two hours to send, reported Simon Jenkins for A.
Assuming that the average length of each message was 80 characters (the maximum was 160) and that of a junk message is 237*, that’s the equivalent of 8735 spam emails.
If there are any life forms on Gliese 581d, let’s hope they’re the forgiving type.
Pic: Students from the Karalundi community in West Australia visit the Tidbinbilla Deep Space complex as it spams the heavens / A
Among the thousands of messages were touching thoughts on peace, love and understanding.
But because it’s Friday afternoon I’ve ignored all of those ones to bring you a list of messages which deal with the more important aspects of life on Earth — booze, trampolines and rock and roll.
Our favourites:
“Hello Gliese 581d inhabitant. Can you help us humans travel through space and become smart like you. Please do not eat us we are a friendly race.”
Angus Pigott, Canberra, Australia
“Alien dude, need tickets to Pearl Jam.”
Kate, Logan City, Australia
“bet you didn’t think we actually existed aye”
Jodie, Wellington, New Zealand
“If you come to Earth look into: music, the beach, ice cream, hugs, family, love, dancing, cheese, trampolines, friendship, books and dreams. Just for a start.”
Tamasin, Richmond, Australia
“whats with the crop circles there so last lightyear. can u see my house. what do you eat. are you little red girl. bye”
frank, mooroobool, Australia
“Care to enlighten us about the beginning of the universe? We’ve narrowed it down to the Big Bang or God.”
Swirlz, Sydney, Australia
“QUICK HEADS UP: CARS ARE NOT THE SUPERIOR LIFEFORMS. DON’T WALK IN FRONT OF THEM OR OFFER THEM FLOWERS.”
Lucy, Killinchy, Ireland
“Hi from Earth! I need your help in my understanding Quantum Mechanics. Earth scientists can’t explain this very well in layman’s terms. Love Earth”
James, Auckland, New Zealand
“Hey, chances are you are far more advanced than us here on Earth. Our weaknesses are; cake and icecream. Please retro-fit your weapons to fire these things.”
Nate Cesco, Pembroke, Georgia
“Hi! Its sunny, 34 deg C and my wife and I are drunk. The beer is cold and the music is groovy. Hope you are having fun too!!”
Bil&Deb, Halifax, Canada
More reading:
“The antenna used to transit was beaming to 302 gigawatts or the equivalent energy of 302 billion mobile phones or every person on earth sending 50 texts at one time.” â€" Simon Jenkins for A
“This site collected goodwill messages from the public for 13 days in August 2009 which were transmitted to Gliese 581d, a planet outside our Solar System which may support life.” â€" Hello From Earth website
* This figure derived from a highly scientific examination of my Spam folder. Also, if anyone is having problems with their “meaty leaver”, I may have just the thing.
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