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If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say?

Posted August 10, 2011 1:08 PM

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Nanotechnologists focus on the very, very small. Other folks are more interested in the very, very large. Wealthy Arab sheik, Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, carved his name into an island. Visible from space, the five letters are over half a mile high and two miles long. If you could carve a message visible from space, couldn't you think of something better to say? If you want to see "HAMAD" yourself type the coordinates "24.3442, 54.3255" into Google Earth.

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#1 "Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say?" by sue on 08/10/2011 1:18 PM (score 2)
#7 "Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say?" by brich on 08/10/2011 11:35 PM (score 3)
#10 "Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say?" by rcapper on 08/11/2011 2:08 AM (score 2)
#21 "Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say?" by kramarat on 08/11/2011 8:08 AM (score 2)
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#9 "Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say?" by ky on 08/11/2011 1:07 AM (score 1)
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sue Guru Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Near Delaware Water Gap Posts: 1325 Good Answers: 83	#1 Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say? 08/10/2011 1:18 PM
	Get off my lawn.
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RVZ717 Guru Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: City of Roses. Posts: 2056 Good Answers: 99	#2 Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say? 08/10/2011 2:09 PM
	Dave's not here man! __________________ Don't believe everything you read on the Internet!
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Anonymous Poster #1	#3 Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say? 08/10/2011 4:40 PM
	Mostly harmless.
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ronseto Guru Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Vancleave, Ms about 30 miles inland from Biloxi and the coast Posts: 3198 Good Answers: 105	#4 Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say? 08/10/2011 5:47 PM
	Why are we concerned about reading a message from space? Who really gives a rat's a*s what a wealthy Arab Sheik is doing. This story needs to be thrown into the trash basket as quickly as possible. WHO CARES! This is not news worthy to be covered by CR4. __________________ Mr.Ron from South Ms.
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RVZ717 Guru Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: City of Roses. Posts: 2056 Good Answers: 99	#5 In reply to #4 Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say? 08/10/2011 7:10 PM
	I agree... That's pretty ridiculous. __________________ Don't believe everything you read on the Internet!
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Anonymous Poster #2	#14 In reply to #4 Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say? 08/11/2011 4:20 AM
	Dear Ronseto, You could have conveyed the same message in a nice language. The topic is ridiculous, yes. Or is your comment not on the topic but on the Arab? I doubt it, though is seems so. I love you. Arab.
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Tornado Guru Join Date: May 2009 Location: Richland, WA, USA Posts: 20964 Good Answers: 780	#6 Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say? 08/10/2011 10:59 PM
	That's all, folks! --Bugs Bunny __________________ In vino veritas; in cervisia carmen; in aqua E. coli.
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brich Guru Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: sometimes Wales,UK.. was Libya, now Oman! Posts: 1715 Good Answers: 116	#7 Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say? 08/10/2011 11:35 PM
	If you can read this you are to close.. BACK OFF!! __________________ The square root of nothing is what you make it!
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	RUN! __________________ Align culture with nature...
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	That'll make them wanna to come back real fast. __________________ The Twain Has Met
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rcapper Guru Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Etats Unis Posts: 1871 Good Answers: 45	#10 Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say? 08/11/2011 2:08 AM
	Based on recent political behaviors: "NO INTELLIGENT LIFE HERE" __________________ The hardest thing to overcome, is not knowing that you don't know.
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Del the cat Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Harlow England Posts: 16498 Good Answers: 661	#11 Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say? 08/11/2011 3:37 AM
	KEEP LEFT __________________ health warning: These posts may contain traces of nut.
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	I'd float a huge sign in the middle of San Francisco Bay saying "Welcome to Fresno" .......Ed Weldon
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Del the cat Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Harlow England Posts: 16498 Good Answers: 661	#13 Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say? 08/11/2011 4:10 AM
	Please give us the secrets of your propulsion system and we promise to use it to benefit all mankind. Del <Awoooga awooga sarcasm alert> __________________ health warning: These posts may contain traces of nut.
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	I think that Pi in binary would be the most easily accessible indication of intelligent life:- \|\|·00\|00\|000\| __________________ We are alone in the universe, or, we are not. Either way it's incredible... Adapted from R. Buckminster Fuller/Arthur C. Clarke
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capri Power-User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Hyderabad, India Posts: 211 Good Answers: 3	#16 Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say? 08/11/2011 6:46 AM
	B +ve __________________ B +ve
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	???
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electrone Power-User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 378 Good Answers: 2	#18 Re: If you could write a message large enough to be seen from space, what would you say? 08/11/2011 7:54 AM
	I like the idea of placing a message in space large enough to be seen from earth instead. It would say, "Compete against harmful things of nature instead of against people."
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	No one home! or No junk mail thank you!
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	__________________ Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Ben Franklin
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	>>>You are here<<< __________________ Tom - "Hoping my ship will come in before the dock rots!"
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	"This Page Intentionally Left Blank" __________________ "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone." - Ayn Rand
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	almost __________________ “For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.” ? Francis Bacon
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	If the sheik so smart, why did he have it constructed upside down???? Hooker
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	Tickets please.... In God we trust... everyone else pays. jt. An archaeologist discovered a mummified body deep in the sand, which was about 2000 years old - but it looked strangely sad and very miserable. Excited by the find they carefully unwrapped the body and found it was in fact the most miserable looking, unhappy mummy, they had ever seen! The face was strained and looked so sad; with it's fists clenched in rage. Carefully prising the fingers open they saw a slip of parchment in his hand, and written on it was, 200 on Goliath to win.
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	__________________ There is no sin except stupidity. (Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900))
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	__________________ We are alone in the universe, or, we are not. Either way it's incredible... Adapted from R. Buckminster Fuller/Arthur C. Clarke
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	ALL ALIENS MUST REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO THE ASTRAL AFFAIRS OFFICE ON BELCHER STREET...
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	BUYER BEWARE! __________________ "Veni, Vidi, Vici"; hendiatris attributed to Gaius Julius Caesar, 47 B.C.
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	"MR. ALIEN LEADER, SORRY THERE'S NOTHING LEFT HERE TO STEAL......WE USED IT ALL!!! __________________ "Veni, Vidi, Vici"; hendiatris attributed to Gaius Julius Caesar, 47 B.C.
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	Sheik Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan has spent a fortune just to show himself off to the world. Doesnt he have anything else better to do with his life? And we buy oil from them? For this?
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