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Classified ads in outer space
By Gearhead, NetworkWorld.com, 05/30/05
We wonder whether the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI (small blue creatures with more than fifty arms each, who are therefore unique in being the only race in history to have invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel [Douglas Adams]) will want to become dancers and crew on a new dance show shooting this summer in Los Angeles?
craigslist, the mega-aggregator of classified flotsam and jetsam have just sent 138,179 classifieds including the one above their way ... possibly. And if not to them, then with a high probability, some other civilization.
From the craigslist press release:
craigslist first announced their plan to make access to space in February after CEO Jim Buckmaster won an auction on eBay for the first private communication to be transmitted into deep space by Deep Space Communications Network, of Cape Canaveral, Florida. "craigslist now serves community in 99 cities and 19 countries, and getting the word out into interstellar space seemed like the logical next step. It really is a small galaxy" noted Buckmaster.
The next space launch of data for the craigslist community is scheduled after the successful return to flight of the Space Shuttle. This mission known as STS-114 will mark the 114th Space Shuttle flight for the Shuttle program and the 31st Shuttle Mission for the Space Shuttle Discovery. At the controls of mission STS-114 will be the first women Commander Colonel Eileen Collins who along with other members of the 7 person crew will be on a 19 day International Space Station re-supply flight. STS-114 is currently scheduled for liftoff May 15th from the same launch pad that first launched and landed man on the moon, Launch Complex 36A located on the Kennedy Space Center.
When asked about craigslist involvement in the intragalactic transactions Jim Buckmaster, CEO of craigslist reaffirmed that it was craigslist policy to not get involved in communications between members and noted, "We continue to believe that what any of our members do inside the privacy of their own home or spaceship is the business of two or more consenting beings, human or otherwise."
If that doesn't dissuade the aliens from landing on Earth nothing will.
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Comments
Looks like your improbability drive got there before you and published your post a couple days into the future...
Posted by: Stuart Berman on May 28, 2005 12:45 AM
