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Yahoo's Time Capsule Project

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hello-we're-here dept.

eldavojohn writes, "Yahoo is compiling a time capsule (Flash required). This massive project, which accepts donations from anyone, is no ordinary time capsule, though. This time capsule will be digitized and beamed into space from the ancient pyramid of Teotihuacan in Mexico. From the article: 'Starting on Tuesday, enthusiasts from around the world will have a chance to submit text, images, video and sounds that reflect human nature to be included in the message.' I highly doubt this 'time capsule' will reach anyone, but it is a neat idea. After browsing through some of the pictures posted, I would hope extraterrestrial life would be more hesitant to exterminate us — if not for anything else than curiosity. We constantly strive to have our legacy live on in the galaxy." Yahoo worked with Internet artist Jonathan Harris on this project.

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  1. Aye by paranode · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe they'd be better off using the sunshine that shoots from your arse as a vehicle?

  2. I don't think this is possible by Quaoar · · Score: 3, Funny

    How are they going to build a tube that high?

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  3. A few thousand years later... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those stupid @#$% Earthlings are spamming us again!

    1. Re:A few thousand years later... by SydBarrett · · Score: 5, Funny

      or its gonna get forwarded all over the universe as "FWD: FWD: FWD: LOL FUNNY EARTHING PICS"

    2. Re:A few thousand years later... by reverseengineer · · Score: 2, Funny
      Them: "Our people have spent generations traveling the void of space in order to reach the fabled Earth, home of our greatest god. Take us to the Almighty Yahoo!"

      Us: "Should we tell them that Google bought their god 900 years ago?"

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  4. You know it's going to happen. by monkeypoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    This sounds like a fun idea until you realize that someone is going to submit goatsex. I can only imagine the aliens reaction to this.

    1. Re:You know it's going to happen. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Alien thought, "Hmmm, looks like a great place for a probe."

  5. Fine, but for God's sake by Phoenix666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    DON'T forget the last episode of 'Single Female Lawyer.'

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  6. digital time capsule? by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, because there's evidence in that pyramid that the aliens who built it used digital communication also...
    Maybe it would be easier to communicate, albeit more expensive, if we shot up a big rock with stuff written on it, say maybe 10 rules that we consider important? I can't imagine that would be misinterpreted somehow by an early desert people on another planet.

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    1. Re:digital time capsule? by MS-06FZ · · Score: 3, Funny

      Better make it 15, in case they drop 'em.

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  7. Not gonna work, skippy.... by Pharmboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    The first line says it all: "Yahoo is compiling a time capsule (Flash required)."

    With our luck, aliens will be using Amiga OS or DOS and never see it. ;)

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  8. WiFi Spam by Peter+Trepan · · Score: 2, Funny

    After browsing through some of the pictures posted, I would hope extraterrestrial life would be more hesitant to exterminate us -- if not for anything else than curiosity.

    Lord Emperor, the Imperial Armada has exterminated the last of the hydrogen-band spammers. At last we can enjoy a reliable communication infrastruc... wait a minute, WTF is this coming from ZZ9 Plural Z-Alpha!?

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  9. Re:Desperate Publicity Ploy by hcob$ · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know... It could be a massive legal ploy. Since they will undoubtably send music (In DIGITAL form no less), they can draw all the RIAA lawyers to an Aztec Pyramid. Hopefully, the will re-instated human sacrifice at that point!

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  10. text, images, video and sounds that reflect humans by blindd0t · · Score: 2, Funny

    So basically they're beaming up decades of porn into space?

  11. Re:Random one I clicked on by Garabito · · Score: 3, Funny
    another one:


    Don't kill us. Thanks.

  12. Re:Random one I clicked on by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I thought it was supposed to read "No Kill I"

  13. Re:Desperate Publicity Ploy by Flashbck · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope that the intended alien intelligence also has the flash plug in that is required.

  14. Sir. We're receiving a transmission! by Chas · · Score: 2, Funny

    [Captain Kirk] So Ensign Shortskirt, what was that transmission?

    [Ensign Shortskirt] It took a little while to reconstruct the message, but it appears, from the predominance of nude photos, to be an invitation for sex...

    [Captain Kirk] Woohoo! Plot a course to the source!

    [Ensign Shortskirt] Uhm. Sir, the origin point is Earth, as of about four hundred years ago...

    [Captain Kirk] DAMN...IT...I...NEED...TO...GET...LAID!

    [Ensign Shortskirt] Your cabin or mine sir?

    [Captain Kirk] Mine. Five minutes. Bring friends...

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    THANK GOD!!!
  15. Re:Random one I clicked on by CopaceticOpus · · Score: 2, Funny

    essential

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