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roseembolism ([personal profile] roseembolism) wrote2008-12-10 11:48 am

So what did Alpha Centauri ever do to us?

Nicked from [livejournal.com profile] james_nicoll's blog:

Latest Keanu Reeves movie too be beamed at Alpha Centauri!

According to the press release, Twentieth Century Fox will transmit the re-make of The Day The Earth Stood Still to the nearest star system to us on Friday the 12th, timing the event to coincide with the film’s opening.   They got a private transmission network to do the job and everything.  Now admittedly, according to currennt astronomical theory the radio signal should be indistinguishable from background noise at less than a light year.  But still do we really think the work of the Keanudroid is an appropriate thing to even try to advertise to the rest of the universe?

[identity profile] baronlaw.livejournal.com 2008-12-10 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm rather afraid they'll take it as proof of a lack of intelligent life.