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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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08/10/2011 1:18 PM

Get off my lawn.

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08/10/2011 2:09 PM

Dave's not here man!

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08/10/2011 4:40 PM

Mostly harmless.

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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.

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08/10/2011 7:10 PM

I agree... That's pretty ridiculous.

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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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08/10/2011 10:59 PM

That's all, folks!

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08/10/2011 11:35 PM

If you can read this you are to close.. BACK OFF!!

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08/11/2011 12:37 AM

RUN!

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08/11/2011 1:07 AM

That'll make them wanna to come back real fast.

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08/11/2011 2:08 AM

Based on recent political behaviors: "NO INTELLIGENT LIFE HERE"

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08/11/2011 3:37 AM

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08/11/2011 3:48 AM

I'd float a huge sign in the middle of San Francisco Bay saying "Welcome to Fresno" .......Ed Weldon

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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.
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08/11/2011 6:26 AM

I think that Pi in binary would be the most easily accessible indication of intelligent life:-

||·00|00|000|

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08/11/2011 6:46 AM

B +ve

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08/11/2011 8:05 AM

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08/11/2011 7:53 AM

PLEASE PARDON THE MESS

WE ARE REMODELING

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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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08/11/2011 8:04 AM

No one home!

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No junk mail thank you!

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08/11/2011 8:08 AM

>>>You are here<<<

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08/11/2011 8:41 AM

"This Page Intentionally Left Blank"

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08/11/2011 8:48 AM

Made in China

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08/26/2011 6:04 AM

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08/11/2011 9:48 AM

If the sheik so smart, why did he have it constructed upside down????

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08/11/2011 10:26 AM

Tickets please....

In God we trust... everyone else pays.

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No Vacancy

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08/11/2011 2:57 PM

ALL ALIENS MUST REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO THE ASTRAL AFFAIRS OFFICE ON BELCHER STREET...

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08/11/2011 3:56 PM

1. You left your oven on.

2. ET phone home.

3. Dju lookin' at me, meng?

4. How YOU doin'?

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08/12/2011 8:46 AM

BUYER BEWARE!

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08/12/2011 8:49 AM

"MR. ALIEN LEADER, SORRY THERE'S NOTHING LEFT HERE TO STEAL......WE USED IT ALL!!!

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08/12/2011 9:46 AM

"HAZARDOUS AREA"

"KEEP BACK 100 PARSECS"

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08/12/2011 3:43 PM

I might ask a question of those space travelers. Maybe it would start:

"I have a Cast Iron bath tub that I want to get rid of...."

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08/12/2011 5:27 PM

CALL YOUR MOM

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08/15/2011 1:59 AM

HI, ERICH!

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09/16/2011 6:23 PM

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10/02/2011 9:38 PM

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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