Phoning home is so 1980s...its time for ET to text home. And he doesn't need a contraption made out of an old record player and Speak and Spell to do it. The service called Sent Forever will allow you to send a text message to the stars through the British Telecom transmission station at Goonhilly (really). You can send a message for free or pay for a premium package in which the receiver will be sent a certificate telling them what the message is. Be careful what you send...it can never be unsent! (Maybe we need a system to prevent drunk Sending Forever like the one that prevents drunk emailing).
If you send me a message, I plan on inventing a faster than light mode of travel and going out there to receive it personally!
Reprinted with permission from the Half-Astrophysicist Blog.
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Way cool!!!!!! My Anniversary is coming up.. can you post date it?
I'll send you one, but I don't have your addy.
I read somewhere (probably on the net, God knows where) that radio waves sent out into space do not go on forever, but degrade with (massive) distance. How could anyone really know until hale-bopp invents his new mode of travel?
Yes, orbs. Your classic radio wave gets weaker as 1/r^2 (r is the distance from the source). That means if you double the distance, the power/area is only 1/4 as much. When you start dealing with large distances, the power gets small pretty quick and you need really big dishes to pick it up.
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