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Is that a phaser in your pocket, Mr. Spaceman, or are you just happy to see me?
NASA wants to send nudes to space in order to attract aliens (chron.com)
For real. See link above.
This is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect pathetic “incels" (involuntary celibates) on the government payroll to come up with, isn't it?
They tried the same thing, before, 30 years ago. On the spacecraft voyager. NASA included images of naked people (caucasians), snippets of music (no royalties were paid), and the word “hello” in dozens of different languages. Most of those cultures of course being totally incapable of launching a spacecraft. Not sure if images of other earth species such as dogs, cats, horses and chickens were part of the Voyager deal. Does anyone else know?
The original Voyager spacecraft travels so slowly that it was of course incapable of reaching any other species before earth will be consumed by our Sun's expanding fireball several billion years from now. Not to worry – NASA has learned from it's past mistakes. THIS time they're BROADCASTING the naked images.
Not sure if this will be 5G, bluetooth, or what. But since the nude images will travel at the speed of light, they will arrive at their destination in about . . . um . . . 100 years after we started sending AM and FM radio broadcasts of Amos and Andy and the Grand Ole Opry. Just in case aliens were uncertain about our true nature after shows like these, this years nudes, along with directions on how to locate earth, should clear up any confusion, no?
I for one, feel this is an amazingly useful and creative use of our tax dollars by NASA. We certainly don't need a modern space shuttle, a replacement for the decaying International Space Station, or defense against hacking into our communication satellites. Let's cut to the chase – invite the aliens to hurry over. They can share their technology, and us help fix what's wrong with our planet, no?
No?
We're in agreement then. Aliens will in all probability swipe left. Little green men, the grays, and the squid people have been getting messages from other planets, other species, for longer than we've been trying to calculate Pi. I'm guessing most of those species broadcast something less racist than Amos and Andy, and more highbrow than “Ghost Riders in the Sky”, eh?
Even if space aliens weren't put off by a century of bad radio and TV programming, I don't think the naked cartoon images (not actual photos) NASA plans on broadcasting will provide a lot of clarity about our reproductive processes. They've probably seen Game of Thrones a gazillion times, and have concluded that incest, pedophilia, and zombies are routine parts of our breeding process here.
