Message Forum: Re: The KEO Satellite

Re: The KEO Satellite

Posted By: relishgargler, on host 66.243.103.162
Date: Friday, May 1, 2009, at 14:48:16
In Reply To: The KEO Satellite posted by RiftTraveler on Friday, May 1, 2009, at 09:38:40:

I'd really laugh if in 50,000 years they haven't found any intelligent life outside our solar system, but are still searching diligently, when this thing comes screaming through the atmosphere, is promptly caught by whatever giganto-magneto-tractor beam we've got by then, but no one remembers our language or that we sent it. And then everyone starts freaking out that it's proof someone's trying to communicate with us, until someone hops online and does a google search (because Google is the only entity that will have survived world wars 3-472) and finds this post. Well, I'd laugh if I were around to care by then. I fully plan to be dead & gettin' my new body in heaven by then. Pretty sure I won't care too much about what's going on down here.

-relishgargler

> Apparently, this is a project wherein a satellite will be loaded up with stuff from our time and shot out into the cosmos set to return to earth in 50,000 years. The website they have offers you the chance to write a message for those still living in the year 52010.
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> I thought some folks here might like to go and leave a message. If you are interested, here's the URL.
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> http://www.keo.org/uk/pages/message.php
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> I was going to include my message in this post, but I was an idiot and failed to copy and paste it over to here before I closed the darn window and now I hate myself. I quite liked it. It was cynical and humorous, including references to Stephen King (the Stand in relation to the Swine Flu), Douglas Adams (I used the phrase "Farking Zarquon" as a reference to them opening it and not having any idea what it said because they can't read our language anymore, and wouldn't THAT be a grand joke on all of us) as well as some self-aggrandizing stuff, like asking them to wish me a happy birthday when my birthday came around that year.
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> And yeah, I filled up the 6000 word limit. I can gas on when the mood takes me.
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> So, that's that. If you want to leave a message, feel free to do so. At worst, the satellite will crash back to earth in 50,000 years, and Wall-E will add it to his junk drawer.
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> -Rifty

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Message:	> I'd really laugh if in 50,000 years they haven't found any intelligent life outside our solar system, but are still searching diligently, when this thing comes screaming through the atmosphere, is promptly caught by whatever giganto-magneto-tractor beam we've got by then, but no one remembers our language or that we sent it. And then everyone starts freaking out that it's proof someone's trying to communicate with us, until someone hops online and does a google search (because Google is the only entity that will have survived world wars 3-472) and finds this post. Well, I'd laugh if I were around to care by then. I fully plan to be dead & gettin' my new body in heaven by then. Pretty sure I won't care too much about what's going on down here. > > -relishgargler > > > Apparently, this is a project wherein a satellite will be loaded up with stuff from our time and shot out into the cosmos set to return to earth in 50,000 years. The website they have offers you the chance to write a message for those still living in the year 52010. > > > > I thought some folks here might like to go and leave a message. If you are interested, here's the URL. > > > > http://www.keo.org/uk/pages/message.php > > > > I was going to include my message in this post, but I was an idiot and failed to copy and paste it over to here before I closed the darn window and now I hate myself. I quite liked it. It was cynical and humorous, including references to Stephen King (the Stand in relation to the Swine Flu), Douglas Adams (I used the phrase "Farking Zarquon" as a reference to them opening it and not having any idea what it said because they can't read our language anymore, and wouldn't THAT be a grand joke on all of us) as well as some self-aggrandizing stuff, like asking them to wish me a happy birthday when my birthday came around that year. > > > > And yeah, I filled up the 6000 word limit. I can gas on when the mood takes me. > > > > So, that's that. If you want to leave a message, feel free to do so. At worst, the satellite will crash back to earth in 50,000 years, and Wall-E will add it to his junk drawer. > > > > -Rifty
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