There was a short story from a few-ish years back where a radio contact was received about how the aliens in the Hercules cluster really didn’t like getting messages and reacted to it violently (with that being where the Arecibo message was aimed.) I wasn’t able to remember or google up the story title, but the concept more recently cropped up in post #3 in this thread.
Oh, sweet Christmas!
You win, Peter, you win. Just get that thing away from me.
We already live among you. Your word for us is “cat”.
PANIC
Text to try and fool the size reduction thingie.
**We send a message to the aliens. What’s the creepiest thing they could send back?
Elvis.
ExTank
December 18, 2017, 2:20am
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"Oh, hey guys, what’s up? We were just in the neighborhood, doing a routine survey sweep update, and…wait a sec…are you…?
:eek: WAAAAUUUGGGHHHH! TALKING MEAT!:eek:"
Shodan
December 18, 2017, 4:11pm
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"All our interstellar operators are busy serving other civilizations, but your call is important to us.
Please stay on the line, and one of our staff will be with as soon as one becomes available. Current wait time is estimated at 378 million years."
Regards,
aadi
December 18, 2017, 5:09pm
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We come to meet our king aka Kim Jong Un
that would creep me out…
We tried to stop them but even our FTL ships and anti-matter bombs didn’t slow them down. They destroyed our civilization and are now heading your way. They’ll be there i…BBBBZZZZZZZZZZZ
Andy_L:
I have read a story in which aliens come to Earth seeking the wisdom of Jimmy Dodd.
In Sagan’s Contact, the first message from the aliens was pretty creepy
It was Hitler’s speech broadcast on television from the Berlin Olympics at the opening ceremonies.
What annoys me about that is that, although it’s wonderfully jarring and creepy, Hitler’s speech was definitely NOT the first thing broadcast on TV. There were p[lenty of prior broadcasts, many of them by Hugo Gernsbach’s TV station outside New York. He’s the guy who started publishing “scientifiction” in his magazines, which eventually became “science fiction”, and after whom science fiction’s “Hugo” award is named.
Gernsbach was mainly printing popular science and electronics magazines. He printed directions for building your own TV set in his magazines, and he set up the broadcasting station so that people would have something to watch if they built the sets.
It wasn’t Hitler that the aliens would’ve seen first – it was Felix the cat
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http://www.mztv.com/ephemera/the-first-star-of-television/
CalMeacham:
What annoys me about that is that, although it’s wonderfully jarring and creepy, Hitler’s speech was definitely NOT the first thing broadcast on TV. There were p[lenty of prior broadcasts, many of them by Hugo Gernsbach’s TV station outside New York. He’s the guy who started publishing “scientifiction” in his magazines, which eventually became “science fiction”, and after whom science fiction’s “Hugo” award is named.
Gernsbach was mainly printing popular science and electronics magazines. He printed directions for building your own TV set in his magazines, and he set up the broadcasting station so that people would have something to watch if they built the sets.
It wasn’t Hitler that the aliens would’ve seen first – it was Felix the cat
Today in Media History: In 1928 Felix the Cat began testing a new tech called television - Poynter
http://www.mztv.com/ephemera/the-first-star-of-television/
IIRC after 20 years, the Hitler speech was explained as being one of the first with the capability to go any distance. That was why, per the book, the earlier broadcasts would have been not received.
K2500
December 27, 2017, 5:31am
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“liberate tuteme ex inferis”
Andy_L
December 27, 2017, 1:17pm
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PoppaSan:
IIRC after 20 years, the Hitler speech was explained as being one of the first with the capability to go any distance. That was why, per the book, the earlier broadcasts would have been not received.
Yeah, that’s what I recall.
“Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do…”
The Hitler thing–rubbish.
Doctor John R Brinkley’s (of Goat Gland Transplant fame)
XERA Border Radio station topped 1,000,00 watts–far greater than any German station of the era.
When he returned to Texas, his busy Mexican lobbyists succeeded in allowing him to boost power to 500,000 watts, which would make XER the most powerful radio station in the world. Brinkley wanted to use this as a bargaining chip to get back to Kansas… but he ended up having to burn his bridges there when some of his doctors at the Brinkley clinic, which was still located there, decided to go independent. He simply razed the clinic and transplanted his operation to Del Rio. He also opened a new clinic in San Juan for the treatment of “piles, fistulas, colitis, and diseases of the female and male rectum.” XER was refurbished and rechristened XERA with its power boosted to an aether-shattering 1,000,000 watts. This signal mashed everything in its path and could be heard in New York and Philadelphia - sometimes to the exclusion of all other channels!
http://wfmu.org/LCD/GreatDJ/Brinkley.html
The Mexican government, eager to get even with its northern neighbors for dividing up North America's radio frequencies without giving any to Mexico, granted Brinkley a 50,000-watt radio license and construction began on XER, his new "border blaster" across the bridge from Del Rio in Villa Acuña, Coahuila (since renamed Ciudad Acuña). As construction got underway, Fishbein and the U.S. State Department desperately searched for a way to shut Brinkley down. Under heavy pressure from the State Bri...
Brinkley used his new border blaster to resume his campaign for governor by using the telephone to call in his broadcasts to the transmitter. This approach did not work, and he lost yet another political campaign; he would lose again in 1934. Though Brinkley’s American radio license had been revoked, XER’s signal was so strong that it could still be heard in Kansas.[46] In 1932, the Mexican government allowed Brinkley to increase his wattage to 150,000 watts. Several months later, Brinkley was allowed to increase to one million watts, “making XER far and away the most powerful radio station on the planet” that, on a clear night, could be heard as far away as Canada. According to accounts of the time, the signal was so strong that it turned on car headlights, made bedsprings hum, and caused broadcasts to bleed into telephone conversations.[47] Local residents didn’t even need a radio to hear Brinkley’s station; ranchers reported that they received it through their metal fences and in their dental appliances.[48]
So, if the Aliens replied–“WE HAVE COME FOR YOUR GLANDS ”–cover your nuts.
JustinC
December 29, 2017, 7:26am
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"Thank you for the reminder, we neglected to power up the mechanism before we left.
The Earth will self-destruct in T minus 10 days, 5 hours and 3 minutes."
“What did you assholes do with all our passenger pigeons?”
