Television For an Audience 45 Light Years Away

beebopdebop writes, "The Irish Times notes that Europe goes intergalactic tonight with the broadcast of a program conceived for aliens and broadcast towards a point 45 light years away in the direction of the Big Dipper. The two naked hosts will present their own unclothed bodies as examples of our physical embodiments, and will tell about daily human existence. Music, art, and our own personal messages will be transmitted as well as discussions from sociologists, scientists, and space experts. This project is the brainchild of the French-based Centre National D'etudes Spatiales and is rooted in seriousness as a natural extension of the gold-plated ambassador disks of Pioneer 10. Those of us wishing to be included can still post messages to be sent into space via a CNES antenna. We will have to wait 90 years to learn whether or not some lifeform was listening."

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Re:Great, intergalactic pornography

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That's actually not true. In other theocracies it's often the same or even worse.

Wait a minute, where on earth have you heard that under such regimes people consider that nudity is pornography? Where? As I told some other poster, we're not talking about how well/bad nudity is received, but rather what it is considered to be, in nature. It's not because you force women to hide themselves that you consider that the depiction of nudity is pornography. Not that I'm saying that in such countries people don't consider nuidty to be pornography, but I yet have to hear anyone from such a country claiming such a thing, as you can hear all the time americans considered that nudity is porn. When I think about it I even remember an american saying that the picture of a naked baby right next to a banner for a soft porn site made it turn into child porn, heh. A child + porn = child porn! ;-)

PS : oh crap, you got modded up for that? lol