First Contact...and Dating Sites (9 comments)

First Contact...and Dating Sites

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 12:35 PM

I'm sure there's a scifi short story that deals with this, but I've been thinking, lately, about how Earth's First Contact is kind of like an dating site. Our broadcasts are like a Match.com or eHarmony listing.

People: There is a REASON we haven't had an interstellar date yet.

MarlowePI


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posted Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 12:42 PM (#62020)

You know of course that we all want an Enciclopedia XenobiologĂ­a entry on this species.


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clarkkers


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posted Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 12:43 PM (#62021)

Are Match.com listings broadcast into space? Is that listed in their TOS? Maybe these websites have overlooked an amazing dating pool. I'm sure there are some lonely Vulcans out there!


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Kane82


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posted Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 01:03 PM (#62022)

ARRRHHHHHH! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I JUST got it out of my head!

Cheese and Crackers that song is going to put me in the ground early.


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schufty


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posted Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 01:08 PM (#62023)

I miss Drive. [wipes tear]


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Hipiap


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posted Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 02:33 PM (#62024)

I am a firm believer that Dave hit it right on the Nose with today's Comic.

Any Otherworldly Intelligence that has mastered interstellar flight and the issues with Relative velocity time dilation are more than likely to bypass the Third Rock from Sol until such time as we don't collectively make them Facepalm upon investigating the planets Radio and Video emissions.

Heck...the First Televised program to head out into space was Hitler opening the '36 Berlin Olympics. That alone would be enough to get me to warp out of the system at 9.995.


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FortressLad


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posted Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 02:56 PM (#62025)

Actually, there's a recent novel about this, Year Zero by Rob Reid (co-founder of Rhapsody). The rest of the galaxy gets addicted to American pop music, and thus creates the largest copyright violation ever known. Haven't read it personally, but I've heard good things about it.


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WilDogg


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posted Thursday, August 16, 2012 - 12:38 AM (#62027)

Will they at least be our friends on Spacebook?


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ScarletVarlet


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posted Thursday, August 16, 2012 - 06:28 AM (#62029)

One of the bonuses of listening to satellite radio, I had to google 'Carly Rae Jepsen' to find out who that was.

What next, aliens tuning in on Rush Limbaugh, polarizing and then arguing among themselves?


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Bick


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posted Friday, August 17, 2012 - 07:49 AM (#62032)

so call me maybe...

friggin ear worms.


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