# Stick a Fork In Us. We're Done. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 9, 2008, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-fork-in-us-were-done/440706 "2008-03-09T09:10:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-fork-in-us-were-done/440706/1 "2008-03-09T09:10:27Z")
[As if aliens didn’t have enough reason to hate us, we’re about to start beaming **ads** to them!](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080307095219.htm) > [@](#): > > The British public is being asked to shoot a 30-second ad about what they perceive life on earth to be as part of Doritos ‘You Make It, We Play It’ user-generated-content campaign. The winning advert in the competition will be beamed past the earth’s atmosphere, beyond our solar system and into the Universe, to anyone ‘out there’ that may be watching. The winning ad will also be broadcast on terrestrial TV. Humans! We’re crunchy and go _great_ with chips and salsa! ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-fork-in-us-were-done/440706/2 "2008-03-09T09:30:33Z")
Can you imagine what alien life is going to think of us from what we are beaming out into space? At best we’ll be avoided and derived as intergalactic hicks too backwater to get off our own planet. At worst we’ll be exterminated before we can get off our own planet and spread our madness to the stars. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-fork-in-us-were-done/440706/3 "2008-03-09T09:36:51Z")
[QUOTE=Amp] Can you imagine what alien life is going to think of us from what we are beaming out into space? At best we’ll be avoided and derived as intergalactic hicks too backwater to get off our own planet. At worst we’ll be exterminated before we can get off our own planet and spread our madness to the stars. [/QUOTE] Whaddya mean “at worst”? I’m thinking that’s the _best_ thing they could do to us! ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-fork-in-us-were-done/440706/4 "2008-03-09T10:14:14Z")
C’mon, they’ve had fifty years to contemplate _Leave It to Beaver_. I’m sure they’ve long since changed the channel. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-fork-in-us-were-done/440706/5 "2008-03-09T12:22:22Z")
Maybe they’ll show up wanting some doritos? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-fork-in-us-were-done/440706/6 "2008-03-09T13:01:40Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] Maybe they’ll show up wanting some doritos? [/QUOTE] Or, at the very least, make enquiries as to an interstellar franchise deal. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-fork-in-us-were-done/440706/7 "2008-03-09T13:13:18Z")
Um, doesn’t everything broadcast from Earth _already_ get “beamed past the earth’s atmosphere, beyond our solar system and into the Universe”? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-fork-in-us-were-done/440706/8 "2008-03-09T13:19:10Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Um, doesn’t everything broadcast from Earth _already_ get “beamed past the earth’s atmosphere, beyond our solar system and into the Universe”? [/QUOTE] Yes, but that’s just the cosmic version of “anal leakage,” whilst _this_ is like stepping outside your front door and suddenly being assaulted by some Third World street urchin, because we’re _deliberately_ beaming this drek at them. If they don’t decide to kill us because of all the years of the Osmonds that we’ve sent out, then this, will surely do the trick. ---
**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-fork-in-us-were-done/440706/9 "2008-03-09T17:18:05Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] We’re crunchy and go _great_ with chips and salsa! [/QUOTE] Dude! A large-sized extraterrestrial blender and we **are** the salsa. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-fork-in-us-were-done/440706/10 "2008-03-09T18:14:18Z")
mmm…_How to Serve Man_… Did Rod Serling know about Dortitos in 1953? ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-fork-in-us-were-done/440706/11 "2008-03-10T14:40:39Z")
This post brought to you by Glagnar’s Human Rinds, It’s a buncha’ muncha’ cruncha’ Human! Brought to you by Carl’s Jr. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-fork-in-us-were-done/440706/12 "2008-03-10T19:42:04Z")
Ah, c’mon guys, you’re missing the point. Once invasion-minded aliens see our TV ads, they’ll conclude that there is no intelligent life here and pass us by!