Imagine you are an alien who on there world you have a prgram like SETI@HOME and you recieve this

http://space.com/businesstechnology/technology/050323_space_messages.html

What would you think ?

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> Imagine you are an alien who on there world you have a prgram like SETI@HOME
> and you recieve this
>
> http://space.com/businesstechnology/technology/050323_space_messages.html
>
> What would you think ?
>


I was thinking of a similar scenario the other day but instead of a commercial I was thinking that life on another planet picked up a distant signal from earth and after years of study they decode it only to find an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies or Gilligan's Island and wrote us off for having no intelligent life.

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To truly explore, one must keep an open mind...

Just reading these boards would be proof of that.

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Account frozen...

> Just reading these boards would be proof of that.
>
>You gotta point

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> I was thinking of a similar scenario the other day but instead of a commercial
> I was thinking that life on another planet picked up a distant signal from
> earth and after years of study they decode it only to find an episode of the
> Beverly Hillbillies or Gilligan's Island and wrote us off for having no
> intelligent life.
>

I have often thought about this, since we have sent out radiowaves the pasts many years, and if they pick up some of these, what would they think of us?

I think they have written us off for years ago, when I see what we see on tv these days! I mean, Temptation Island e.g.!?

Maybe if they pick up an old Monty Python show, they might consider us worth to speak with, and show up and start to slap us with a fish!

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

Now if you think YOUR connection is laggy sometimes, imagine what it will be like when ol' Korg of Klinshai clicks on an apartment listing.

And then finds after a 300 yr wait, error 404. He then launches an all out attack to destroy the source of all the frustration - which turns out to be M$!

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Paul
(S@H1 8888)
And proud of it!

Sounds more like some guy with a website wants free advertising from the terran media.

Never mind what they'd think if they saw Monty Python or Gilligan's Island. They'd probably not know what to make of it anyway. What worries me more is when they go a little further and catch transmissions of, say, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, or Space: Above and Beyond and figure us to be an outright threat. At least they'd think twice about coming after us if they figure a huge ship filled with fighters was lurking in orbit.

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Well, if somehow they could receive a television signal and monitor our modern-day fantasies, they'd learn an essential truth about humans: we tend to love in dark corners and hate in large crowds.