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Old 10-April-2003, 01:37 AM
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Originally Posted by BigJim
As a purely tongue-in-cheek suggestion, maybe we could just have a bag of Nachos or some simlilar snack food attached to our next interstellar probe, because at least the aliens would then know it was artificial, and would probably be able to:...
And the nice thing is that we wouldn't have refrigerate it or take any special precautions to space-proof it--junk food is essentially indesctructible. "Silly customer. You cannot hurt a Twinkie."

And as long as we're at it, i have a new suggestion as to what to beam out the next time we send a SETI test message--a live televised shot of a man playing solitaire (klondike is probably the most effective). My guess is that we'd receive a message about playing the red eight on the black nine within minutes (i suspect that solitaire suggestions are not limited by light speed or causality arguments).
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