Sunday, October 01, 2006

File This Under "What Are They Thinking"

I am a sci-fi nut, who believes the odds are good that there is other intelligent life out there, even if we'll never speak with it directly. But even I am finding it hard not to laugh out loud at this idea from the French.

Eurotrash goes intergalactic tonight when two naked television presenters host the first programme conceived for aliens and broadcast to a star located in the Big Dipper, 45 light years away...The TV show has been conceived as an idiot's guide to humankind, or close encounters of the nude kind. The hosts will explain how the human body is created - thus justifying their own nakedness - and will tell about the main elements of daily human life.
Cosmic Connexion will talk to sociologists, scientists and space experts, as well as explain to viewers - on earth and in space - about previous attempts to contact other life forms such as the gold and aluminium disc placed on board the Pioneer 10 probe launched in 1972 and last contacted in 2003.
The station has a clear message for viewing aliens: "We have seen your crop circles. Stop by and say hello."
If there are aliens out there, and they do receive the message, one has to wonder if we are telling them more than we realize about our media-saturated society.

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