Send ET a Text Message From Earth

[tocqueville]

Here's a truly long-distance message...one aimed more than 20 light-years away.

A new Web site in Australia is gathering text messages from around the world, all to be beamed to a distant alien planet called Gliese 581d.

The clock is ticking to submit text messages of no longer than 160 characters – perhaps a signal that extraterrestrial life may have a case of attention deficit disorder. The project - called "Hello From Earth" - (http://www.HelloFromEarth.net) ends Aug. 24.

Once the communiques are amassed, they will be transmitted from NASA's Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex at Tidbinbilla.

The dispatched messages will join other "outworldly" attempts to reach out and touch ET, such as Pioneers 10 and 11 launched in the 1970s, each carried small metal plaques identifying their time and place of origin for the benefit of any other spacefarers that might find them in the distant future.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090814/sc_space/sendetatextmessagefromearth

post your message here

http://www.hellofromearth.net/