Bebo to send friend request to aliens

Bebo to send friend request to aliens

Daniel Fleshbourne on 04 August 2008 - 14:53 · 32 comments & 10667 views

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Social network Bebo has teamed up with RDF Digital to create a digital time capsule to send personal messages and pictures to the nearest planet that could hold life. The information will be beamed 120 trillion miles into space to Gliese 581C, considered to be the nearest planet that could potentially contain life similar to our own.

As part of the 'A Message From Earth' project, Bebo users can create their own images or text via an application and vie for a spot in the final 500. The messages to be sent will be chosen via a web vote, which runs until 30 September 2008.

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#1 digitalsoft on 04 Aug 2008 - 15:09

Great, now even aliens will get annoying "you've been invited to Bebo" emails lol

(5 replies) #2 Manuroc on 04 Aug 2008 - 15:20

Needless to say that, even if the aliens were sufficiently advanced life forms, their technology would not be anything like ours and be unable to decode our messages.

#2.1 Fourjays on 04 Aug 2008 - 15:32

Or it directly translates to a declaration of war in their language...

#2.2 The Dark Wanderer on 04 Aug 2008 - 18:16

(Fourjays said @ #2.1)

Or it directly translates to a declaration of war in their language...

Only to have there armada eaten by a small dog when its sent to attack due to a miscalculation of scale?

#2.3 Ogmius on 04 Aug 2008 - 18:58

(Fourjays said @ #2.1)

Or it directly translates to a declaration of war in their language...

Dak dak! DAK DAK DAK DAK!

#2.4 markjensen on 04 Aug 2008 - 19:46

(Ogmius said @ #2.3)

Dak dak! DAK DAK DAK DAK!

Wow, Ogmius just made the International Sign of the Donut!

#2.5 PermaSt0ne on 10 Aug 2008 - 23:04

uhhh yea, actually they would be able to decode it. all they have to do is have algorithms searching for patterns

how do you think we translate "lost" languages? like figuring out Egyptian hieroglyphs (and no, the Rosetta Stone didn't help at all) it was all done by hand. sure it took a few hundred years but if they are "sufficiently advanced" then they can just have computers do it all for them; just like we could if we get an alien signal

the only way our technology being different would matter is with interfacing the two ala independence day style

(3 replies) #3 vipwoody on 04 Aug 2008 - 15:34

how much time would it take those messages to arrive to their destination? (H)

Last edited by vipwoody on 04 Aug 2008 - 15:47

#3.1 cRuNcHiE on 04 Aug 2008 - 16:14

It's about 20 light years i think

#3.2 Lt-DavidW on 04 Aug 2008 - 17:03

(cRuNcHiE said @ #3.1)

It's about 20 light years i think

A light year is a unit of distance, not time.

The correct answer is 20-21 years.

#3.3 Magallanes on 05 Aug 2008 - 02:14

afaik radio signal travel at light speed.

Anyways, even emitting a ultrapowerful radio signal, then STILL is not able to reach other stars, with luck the signal can cross the Pluto orbit. So yes, SETI project is a scam.

#4 ThePitt on 04 Aug 2008 - 16:27

"hello? we are destroying our planet. Please send us your coordinates so we can arrive asap"

#5 Lt-DavidW on 04 Aug 2008 - 16:59

Oh, great...

The aliens' SETI programme will spend a millennia trying to decode HTML and JPEG binary packets.

(2 replies) #6 A Clockwork Lime on 04 Aug 2008 - 18:08

Oh, joy. Just what the universe needs. Idiots from social networks vomiting their **** into the cosmos.

#6.1 Xeta on 05 Aug 2008 - 22:50

(A Clockwork Lime said @ #6)

Oh, joy. Just what the universe needs. Idiots from social networks vomiting their **** into the cosmos.

+1
Thanks for that, I got a good laugh.

#6.2 BilliShere on 11 Aug 2008 - 00:58

+1
HAhah! Exactly my thoughts!

(1 reply) #7 warwagon on 04 Aug 2008 - 18:51

While your at it, why don't you plug into the mother ship and upload a Mac Virus.

#7.1 Magallanes on 05 Aug 2008 - 02:26

I bet the reply will contain a DNA chain of a nymphomaniac blonde (sadly later she will become in a cheap 3d fx effect)

(1 reply) #8 markjensen on 04 Aug 2008 - 19:02

Well, this is a quick way to get Earth blacklisted as a spammer.

#8.1 Sam Symons Live on 05 Aug 2008 - 04:15

Haha, too right.

#9 +Dakkaroth on 04 Aug 2008 - 19:08

Can we make death threats to them?

#10 thealexweb on 04 Aug 2008 - 21:29

Well Bebo needs some way to stay in the news, it really has gone downhill.

#11 team_NOOB on 05 Aug 2008 - 02:02

ahahah +1 to all previous comments.. you guys make me laugh

(1 reply) #12 3rd impact on 05 Aug 2008 - 02:15

thanks for the ROFL's guys. i love this thread XD

#12.1 Guol on 05 Aug 2008 - 13:43

haha yeah this thread's hilarious.
shows how much of a joke bebo is i guess

#13 carmatic on 05 Aug 2008 - 03:44

umm what if theres no life there at all?

#14 Unplugged on 05 Aug 2008 - 08:23

you can see some alien now watching some cam whore get her snatch out

#15 Joshie on 05 Aug 2008 - 21:04

This is totally going to start a horrible, horrible religious war somewhere.

#16 psionicinversion on 10 Aug 2008 - 13:44

yeah or watch some fat kid swinging a light sabre around going zuuum, zuuuuum

#17 Webworldx on 10 Aug 2008 - 19:58

Is it going to get to the point where we need to send up a spam junk filter for space?!

#18 BilliShere on 11 Aug 2008 - 01:00

Hello all aliens.. I'm sure you are enjoying the universe's favourite reality show! EARTH!!! w00t!
I have a uplink relay you need to fix in my @$$.

Haha.

(if no one got that...its from south park)

#19 Tzimisce on 11 Aug 2008 - 08:39

"Hello fellow life forms! What's it like out in space?" - anonymous bebo user (fake)

translating into alien language... beep... boop...

"Hello fellow furfag! I killed your mother, space?"

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