ET text home? Send SMSes To Outer Space!

[goodboy]

An Australian website is giving texting an intergalactic touch and allowing users to send short mobile phone-type messages into space.

From Wednesday and until August 24, people hankering for an out-of-this-world experience can visit www.HelloFromEarth.net to post messages no longer than 160 characters that will be transmitted to Gliese 581d, the nearest Earth-like planet outside the solar system likely to support life.

Expected delivery time, however, is some 20 years, the website said. And there's no guarantee of a response.

"It's like a 'message in a bottle' cast out into the stars. What's interesting is not just whether there's anyone listening, but what the public will say to intelligent life on another planet," said project spokesperson Wilson da Silva.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-science/20090812/SCIENCE-US-SPACE-SMS-tech/

[rcrush]

1. omg alienz u guyz! lolz u crazy!

[goodboy]

2. What are they gonna think when they get the fwd.fwd.fwd.fwd.fwd.fwd.

that says they'll die if they don't forward to 10 people?!?!

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That's what'll happen!

[Call Me Wesley]

3. "Gliese 581d support center,

Press #1 for Glieseish or press #2 for Intergalactic."

[goodboy]

4. #3 for "Boom, Boom...out go the lights" Pat Travers (nt)

[Call Me Wesley]

5. LOL!

:thumbsup: