Doritos Advertisement To Be Broadcast To Aliens

[maximus otter]

A snack manufacturer is to broadcast an advert into space.

The manufacturers believe that the broadcast to extraterrestrials offers "a snapshot of life on Earth to anyone 'out there'."

But aliens may be led to conclude our pale blue dot is devoid of intelligent life: the 30 second video clip shows a tribe of Doritos escaping from a pack and sacrificing one of their own to the "God of Salsa", when there are no humans around.

For broadcasting the advert, encoded as ones and zeros that clever aliens should be able to figure out, Doritos will make a donation to astronomers and academics from Leicester University and Eiscat (The European Incoherent SCATter Scientific Association).

The space-bound ad will broadcast on Friday 13 June from a radar from the Eiscat Space Centre in Svalbard, Norway, which is normally used to study the atmosphere and northern lights.

EISCAT Director, Prof Tony van Eyken, who will oversee the transmission, says: "The signal is directed at a solar system just 42 light years away from Earth, in the 'Ursa Major' or Great Bear Constellation. Its star is very similar to our Sun and hosts a habitable zone that could harbour small life supporting planets similar to ours."

Although each and every television advert already broadcast has leaked into the heavens, the caper marks the first time one has been aimed at an other worldly market.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... liens.html

maximus otter

 

[eburacum]

The article doesn't say which solar system this advert is aimed at, but from the distance of 42 light years it appears to be 36 Ursae Majoris. Strangely this information is not given in any of the articles on the 'net that I can find.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36_Ursae_Majoris
This is a star somewhat larger than the Sun, with no confirmed planets; a bit of a strange choice.

At 46 light years another system can be found in that general direction, 47 Ursae Majoris, with two confirmed planets and towards which two messages have already been sent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/47_Ursae_Majoris
I wonder if they have sent it to the wrong system...

 

[SoundDust]

I wonder if they have sent it to the wrong system...

Well, when the aliens visit and announce "your crisps are shit, your adverts are worse, and we want our money back" before vapourising us all, we'll know that they probably have

 

[rynner2]

I wonder if they have sent it to the wrong system...

Well, when the aliens visit and announce "your crisps are shit, your adverts are worse, and we want our money back" before vapourising us all, we'll know that they probably have

Since that visit should be at least 80 years in our future, I will probably have been already vapourised (in the local crem).

(You young ones can worry about it if you wish!)

 

[eburacum]

It will be a minimum of 84 years before they arrive on Earth. By which time the Dorito company may have gone out of business, or discontinued the product. They'll arrive here and say "We have travelled far in search of salty, crispy snacks. Where are all the Doritos?" and proceed to lay waste to the Earth in frustration.

Oh, that sounds familiar...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Aliens_Attack

 

[GNC]

Just give the aliens bits of cardboard with cheese powder on them, they won't know the difference.

 

[Timble2]

Needn't be 80 years before they respond, the signal's going to take 42 years to get there, if they've got some form of faster than light travel, they could be here very shortly after that, if they had time-travel they could be here practically instantly...the last 60 years of UFOs could be time travelling aliens looking for crispy snacks, who've mistimed their arrivals...

 

[SoundDust]

if they had time-travel they could be here practically instantly...the last 60 years of UFOs could be time travelling aliens looking for crispy snacks, who've mistimed their arrivals...

If that's possible then we should consider the possibility that time travelling aliens from the planet Dorito have visited us in the past with the recipe for a popular crispy snack, making some sort of weird alien paradox-y type thing that actually serves no purpose when you think about it really ...