1st 'interstellar tourism campaign' urges aliens to visit Lexington, Kentucky

[Admin]

Scientists beamed out a deep-space travel ad to potential aliens in the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, urging them to visit Lexington, Kentucky.

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[Questioner]

They have no idea what's out there.

"Come enjoy the mindless morons of Earth!"
"By the time you arrive the oceans should all be 'hot tub' warm!"
"Get here too late and we could already be extinct."

 

[Unclear Engineer]

Um, did they say anything about contacting Washington DC for a visa?

And, did they consider that the biological differences between the horse-riding, bourbon-drinking, dopamine engorged Kentuckians might be stark? What if they look like horses, sweat bourbon, and get sick on dopamine? That might lead to some serious "misunderstandings" with a species that would most likely have the technology to incinerate our whole ecosystem just by tossing their equivalent of a cigarette butt.

Just sayin' - be careful what you ask for.

 

[Atlan0001]

Um, did they say anything about contacting Washington DC for a visa?

And, did they consider that the biological differences between the horse-riding, bourbon-drinking, dopamine engorged Kentuckians might be stark? What if they look like horses, sweat bourbon, and get sick on dopamine? That might lead to some serious "misunderstandings" with a species that would most likely have the technology to incinerate our whole ecosystem just by tossing their equivalent of a cigarette butt.

Just sayin' - be careful what you ask for.

Then again, they might be from Tatooine's Mos Eisley and it's "cantina." Kentucky bourbon might be right down their alley.

 

[Dave]

On a more serious note a message to intelligent lifeforms in our galaxy should read more like this

HELP!
We are the human race, an intelligent lifeform in the milky way galaxy.
We wage mindless wars with each other. We are having difficulty integrating our own ideologies.
We are having trouble living in our own natural world. We harm it, only taking steps, when we are in dire need of taking the right course of action.
Over one billion people have lived in extreme poverty for 100 years on our world.
We are having difficulty coming together as one race, the human race. For all of our failings we are at heart a good people.
We will save a drowning man, at risk to our self. We are capable of great compassion and love.
Amazing inventions we have created.
And most of all we are capable of forging a lasting friendship. An alliance between us and other intelligent lifeforms in the milky way. An alliance built on trust to live in harmony, helping each other. Working together. Living together.

 

[Questioner]

On a more serious note a message to intelligent lifeforms in our galaxy should read more like this

HELP!
We are the human race, an intelligent lifeform in the milky way galaxy.
We wage mindless wars with each other. We are having difficulty integrating our own ideologies.
We are having trouble living in our own natural world. We harm it, only taking steps, when we are in dire need of taking the right course of action.
Over one billion people have lived in extreme poverty for 100 years on our world.
We are having difficulty coming together as one race, the human race. For all of our failings we are at heart a good people.
We will save a drowning man, at risk to our self. We are capable of great compassion and love.
Amazing inventions we have created.
And most of all we are capable of forging a lasting friendship. An alliance between us and other intelligent lifeforms in the milky way. An alliance built on trust to live in harmony, helping each other. Working together. Living together.

Alien response:
"Pray tell, what exactly is your definition of 'intelligence'???
"Thx ever so much."

 

[Atlan0001]

On a more serious note a message to intelligent lifeforms in our galaxy should read more like this

HELP!
We are the human race, an intelligent lifeform in the milky way galaxy.
We wage mindless wars with each other. We are having difficulty integrating our own ideologies.
We are having trouble living in our own natural world. We harm it, only taking steps, when we are in dire need of taking the right course of action.
Over one billion people have lived in extreme poverty for 100 years on our world.
We are having difficulty coming together as one race, the human race. For all of our failings we are at heart a good people.
We will save a drowning man, at risk to our self. We are capable of great compassion and love.
Amazing inventions we have created.
And most of all we are capable of forging a lasting friendship. An alliance between us and other intelligent lifeforms in the milky way. An alliance built on trust to live in harmony, helping each other. Working together. Living together.

Their return message, "Join the universal club of life." Intelligent alien talking: "It's called, in your terms, 'differentiation' and 'the branching tree of evolution.'. Also 'complexity' and 'chaos'. Also, 'Life is always beautiful' (always from a distance) but never look at it too closely because it is also ugly (it is also various beyond any want to comprehend). Also, a Utopian world is stone monolith, no energies, no revolutions, no evolutions, no creations, no exodus (no expanding universe), really no rounding of life, in it, Un-free. Un-liberated. Unintelligent (As J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur said, among many others, 'contracting' / 'contracted', 'no development of mass genius' (no opening and expansive frontier state . . . including of the mass mind)), Savage. Tyrannical. Anarchic. 'Dark Age' Un-civilized." (The physics, "What cannot or will not divide outwardly more benignly, will divide inwardly more malignantly!")

 

[AboveAndBeyond]

Alien response:
"Pray tell, what exactly is your definition of 'intelligence'???
"Thx ever so much."

Lol. Humans may be smart, but they don't have good sense.

Plus there's one problem with them visiting here: just like our money is no good there, theirs is not likely to be any good here. That bourbon ain't free, ya know.

 

[Atlan0001]

Lol. Humans may be smart, but they don't have good sense.

Plus there's one problem with them visiting here: just like our money is no good there, theirs is not likely to be any good here. That bourbon ain't free, ya know.

Any gold, or silver, or diamond, or other precious commodity of any kind, coin (of energy ("money is a token of energy")) will do for energy exchange.

 

[brad.t]

I think Lexington is on to something. Been there, not impressed. But I do think they have the right idea to advertise to extraterrestrials to visit them. Start out simply.
We need their experience, guidance and technology. Unless of course they plan to colonize and eat us...

 

[Dave]

The greatest evolution will occur with our military. In time, if all goes well, we will become one as the human race and there will be no need for military entities on earth. The military will in the future do what they were always meant to do. Explore space. Coming in peace to alien worlds.

If we visit a primitive alien race we may find them at war. We might wonder, why are they at war amongst themselves? Why are they killing their own? They are very dangerous, we humans will think. Let's observe, but we should keep our distance.

 

[AboveAndBeyond]

Any gold, or silver, or diamond, or other precious commodity of any kind, coin (of energy ("money is a token of energy")) will do for energy exchange.

Precious to us, but maybe not to them.

Remember, when British settlers started colonizing Australia ~200 years ago, to become farmers/ranchers, they came upon fields of nuggets of gold just lying on the ground. The indigenous people obviously had gone by them many times over tens of thousands of years and the thought of picking them up had never occurred to them.

 

[RobertLodder]

Lol. Humans may be smart, but they don't have good sense.

Plus there's one problem with them visiting here: just like our money is no good there, theirs is not likely to be any good here. That bourbon ain't free, ya know.

If an alien visits me in Kentucky, I will gladly pour him a free bourbon from my cabinet if he wants.