Science Hello From Earth: send your message to Gliese 581d

[SiberianTiger]

They will accept messages till 07:00 GMT Monday 24 August 2009:

http://hellofromearth.net/

At the end of Science Week, NASA will transmit the messages to Gliese 581d using the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex in Tidbinbilla.

Will we get an answer? No-one really knows. So why not send a message and find out?

Hopefully, they'll make sure the evil guys from Gliese 581c won't eavesdrop. :rofl:

 

[T.Neo]

Sending a message to a ice-covered ocean world seven times the size of Earth, where the most complex life may be a few slimy clumps of algae?

In English? Even if there were something at 581 d that could listen for radio signals, earthly languages would make as much sense as a blabbering chipmunk.

Seems rather pointless to me, although fun...

 

[ar81]

Hello, hunams, we are the republic of free algae.
We might like to send a ship to meet you, but our bureaucrats cut our budgets, so we are confined to our planet, after we went to our nearby moon and after our politicians deorbited our only and expensive space station.
We celebrate our incompetence to go to space, but we like to know that you are not like us, so you are very unlikely to have the bureaucracies we have.

 

[agentgonzo]

"My name is Owen Clarke, I am the credit manager in a bank here in Nigeria. I am contacting you of a business transfer, of a huge sum of money from a deceased account..."

 

[jedidia]

I have a sick grandmother to care for and I really need 200 dollars to buy one of these portable wood-stoves, you're my only hope! :lol:

Hello, hunams,

that little misspelling just reminded me of Star Controll 2. Maybe we'll find Spathi out there... but they'd be too scared to reply.

 

[ar81]

If you loved Star Control 2, you hunam, may play a freeware Windows version here.

 

[jedidia]

That's how I played it, actually, back in 2004 or somewhen. The game is too old to have made it to the shelfes over here.

 

[Jer95]

So the messages will travel 119.336189 X 10^13 miles or 20.3 light years! that means it will take 20 years for our messages to arrive

 

[docabn]

Dear aliens,

By the time you get this message decode it and send a reply most of us will have forgotten we sent anything assuming we are still alive to remember. But in case you do translate it and decide to visit earth please remember.


1. Approach us with caution. We startle easily and you arrival will invariably result in numerous wars, dozens of new religions and a large percentage of the population running around in circles waving franticly.
Of course there will be an equally large percentage who will choose to ignore your existence unless they can use it to earn money or power. (hence the new religions and wars)

2. In many places we still deny people basic rights based on race or gender (so don't expect better treatment.)

3. If a human or group of humans can use your existence to gain power, influence or make money they will.

4. However … There is a small percentage of us who are just genuinely curious and would just like to meet and learn things (of course most of them are under the age of 10) But if you can find those people. (they will not be the ones running in circles screaming franticly) and avoid the others, you should be afforded a very pleasant visit .
Good luck and hope to see you soon.

 

[Linguofreak]

Sending a message to a ice-covered ocean world seven times the size of Earth, where the most complex life may be a few slimy clumps of algae?

In English? Even if there were something at 581 d that could listen for radio signals, earthly languages would make as much sense as a blabbering chipmunk.

Seems rather pointless to me, although fun...

Ah... Sending messages in English isn't such a bad thing, if you send the right things along with them. You can send a simple black and white bitmap with pictures in it to define basic concepts. Eventually you can get around to defining English words, demonstrating grammatical concepts, and so on, and once you've built up a basic vocabulary and grammar, send along a comprehensive dictionary and grammar that defines the rest of the English language in terms of the already established core vocabulary. Then start sending your English messages.

 

[T.Neo]

Ah... Sending messages in English isn't such a bad thing, if you send the right things along with them. You can send a simple black and white bitmap with pictures in it to define basic concepts. Eventually you can get around to defining English words, demonstrating grammatical concepts, and so on, and once you've built up a basic vocabulary and grammar, send along a comprehensive dictionary and grammar that defines the rest of the English language in terms of the already established core vocabulary. Then start sending your English messages.

Well... perhaps.

But surely there could be a simpler "language", or it might be better just to send simple black-and-white bitmaps?

 

[Brad]

We are the borg... Resistance is futile...We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service ours..:rofl:

 

[MJR]

Do you know when if they are going to do this again?

 

[Unstung]

Well... perhaps.

But surely there could be a simpler "language", or it might be better just to send simple black-and-white bitmaps?

I wonder if the pictures could be mistaken for parts of the language then, if there is any life, and life that is intelligent enough to receive the signals.

 

[Spicer]

My message:

We are people from Earth. The people who lead us have no idea what they are doing. We have pizza. Come visit us, be our leaders, we'll give you Sausage Pizza.

 

[Brycesv1]

greetings algae people. at this point in time there is a 10 teraton nuclear warhead en route to your planet. it is nice to know we are not alone in the universe... goodbye

and ppl think humans would freak out about alien contact XD

PS: to my brother's dad. Its a joke, STOP pulling everything i say out of context.