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by When people think of interstellar communications, often thoughts lean towards a professional, scientific message to our extra-terrestrial neighbors. Perhaps a carefully crafted radio transmission agreed upon multi-nationally? Perhaps a physical object akin to the Golden Record attached to the Voyager spacecraft? While all that may be well and noble, one transmission was made in 1983 by a pair of drunken Japanese astronomers, Hisashi Hirabayashi and Masaki Morimoto. Under the influence, the astronomers transmitted a message to the Altair system simply because it's close proximity would allow a "quick" response if alien life existed there. Assuming an immediate turnaround upon reception, the aliens could respond with a similarly drunken "cheers" that would arrive on Earth in 2015. Or they might decide Earth's best and brightest are drunks and that we are easy to colonize ...
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We're doomed
I think we must assume that our destruction is near. Since no humans showed up at the MIT time traveler convention, we can only assume that our species meets its end at the hands of our forthcoming alien overlords, or the Great Purge of 2017. It's hard to say.
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That's awesome! by NomadSoul :: NR6 :: Show
You never know, we might be overrun with interplanetary party animals in a few years...