# GET OUT YOUR OLD SPOCK EARS AND E.T. MASKS One Million Dollar Prize! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-your-old-spock-ears-and-e-t-masks-one-million-dollar-prize/991508 "2023-10-13T13:29:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-your-old-spock-ears-and-e-t-masks-one-million-dollar-prize/991508/1 "2023-10-13T13:29:19Z")
A contest is offering a million bucks for a genuine extraterrestial, caught on video. [ET ON FILM ARTICLE {LINK}](https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/ring-alien/) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-your-old-spock-ears-and-e-t-masks-one-million-dollar-prize/991508/2 "2023-10-14T01:17:10Z")
Tempting. But a _genuine_ video would be worth way more than $1m. It would turn the world upside down forever. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-your-old-spock-ears-and-e-t-masks-one-million-dollar-prize/991508/3 "2023-10-14T01:19:06Z")
Someone should send a pregnant woman due soon up into space. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-your-old-spock-ears-and-e-t-masks-one-million-dollar-prize/991508/4 "2023-10-14T01:33:41Z")
I’m watching. But due to my inability to post pictures/video online I’ll probably miss the boat. Dang it.👽 ---
**Author:** ![FrenchDunadan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frenchdunadan/32/5449_2.png) [@FrenchDunadan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrenchDunadan)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-your-old-spock-ears-and-e-t-masks-one-million-dollar-prize/991508/5 "2023-10-14T18:18:57Z")
They have been filmed already. The proofs are here. The bad news is that they breed too intensively. > **[Arachnauts: NASA Sends Spiders to Space for Experimentation – Here’s What...](https://scitechdaily.com/arachnauts-nasa-sends-spiders-to-space-for-experimentation-heres-what-they-found/)** > > Humans have taken spiders into space more than once to study the importance of gravity to their web-building. What originally began as a somewhat unsuccessful PR experiment for high school students has yielded the surprising insight that light plays... that was the flies that were breed, the spiders were born on Earth. So extraterrestrial flies ! ! …or X-flies… ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-your-old-spock-ears-and-e-t-masks-one-million-dollar-prize/991508/6 "2023-10-14T21:36:22Z")
That would piss Tommy off. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-your-old-spock-ears-and-e-t-masks-one-million-dollar-prize/991508/7 "2023-10-17T16:45:39Z")
Now I want to make ear appliances made of/made to look like sporks. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2023, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-your-old-spock-ears-and-e-t-masks-one-million-dollar-prize/991508/8 "2023-10-18T05:04:42Z")
Anyone else hearing the thread title to the tune of “Put on Your Sunday Clothes”?