Speaking of space, I’m a big Craigslist fan, and it’s funny to note that their expansion has brought them to outer space:
Recent posters to craigslist may have noticed a little checkbox that asks if it’s “ok to transmit this posting into outer space.” In a few weeks everyone who answered “yes” will have their messages beamed into the heavens by the Florida-based Deep Space Communications Network via a five-meter parabolic dish antenna. A March test transmission of the first 138,000 messages went swimmingly. Act now and you, too, can offer our intergalactic pals a low, low price on your used computer peripherals. (East Bay Express)
Here’s an actual Craigslist post to extraterrestials. And here’s a personal that was quoted in the East Bay Express article:
It would be cool if you had like a transporter or something because I’m not good with LDR’s [long distance relationships]. Either that, or a spaceship that goes really really fast but somehow doesn’t affect the space/time continuum. I don’t want to go see you for the night/weekend only to come back to find out that everybody I know is dead and 400 years have passed. That would suck.
Ah. Classic. I presume aliens would also receive the usual Craigslist hodgepodge of posts - attempts to give away unfriendly hamsters, rants about Microsoft Word, ninjas seeking ninjas, and other personals. Then they’d blast away our world for an interplanetary bypass.