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EXPERTS warn that competing radio transmissions could be confusing to aliens and little more than space spam. Few protested in 2008 when NASA beamed The Beatles song Across the Universe into deep space as a cosmic message of peace However the mix of other messages - which include images of genitals and appeals for money - may even be deemed as a threat by aliens. European Space Agency (ESA) astrophysicist Malcolm Fridlund advised caution about drawing attention to ourselves. "I'm not lying awake at night worrying about the overlords of the galaxy or anything like that," he said, "but when you don't know of anything that's out there, you should maybe be a little careful, you should know something about the (star) system first."
"Please send money. Any kind of money. Universal money is OK. Alien currency OK. Meteorites are good. Gold, Moon rocks, space junk also good. Send to: Maura, Planet Earth."
Originally posted by Ausar
it would annoy me: some human pop band ,popular because they are projected to be, to humans; would think, even if i could decipher their encrypted programming, that i would want any of their greatest offerings.