The Day the Earth Stood Still

[Jorkest]

Twentieth Century Fox makes history by transmitting the first motion picture in to deep space, making THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL the world’s first galactic motion picture release. The first deliberate deep space transmission of this highly anticipated science fiction thriller will begin this Friday, December 12, 2008, to coincide with the film’s opening day on Planet Earth. If any civilizations are currently orbiting Alpha Centauri, they will be able to receive and view the film approximately four years from now in the year 2012.

ahh so aliens will be watching whats happening to us in real time!!

 

[acolon_5]

Does the choice of movies seem like a bad idea to anyone else?

Couldn't they send a love story instead? I would want first contact to covey a sence of humanities good qualities.

 

[DMT Entity]

I know for a fact that UFO's are visiting Earth but I do not accept the idea that they are extra-terrestrials or humans. I recently witnessed several disc shaped crafts fly over with red, blue, yellow, and green flashing lights. I'm pretty sure they are extra-dimensionals also known by the terms Aeons or Angels. Some people think it's closed minded to not believe that there is life somewhere else in our physical universe. It's not really that closed-minded when you take into account that there are probably infinite dimensions and infinite life forms in this multi-dimensional universe.

 

[The Traveler]

Funny, today I replied on another forum about sending this movie into space, let me qoute it (roughly translated from dutch) here:

What can happen when we send this stream into space is that it reaches some alien race and they will think the story is not about our Earth but about THEIR planet. It's warning that there is a spaceship on the way to their planet with an invinceble robot inside and they better treat it well.

btw, it's very dangerous to cry, like a small child in the night with a universe full of wolves.

 

[jamie]

I know for a fact that UFO's are visiting Earth but I do not accept the idea that they are extra-terrestrials or humans. I recently witnessed several disc shaped crafts fly over with red, blue, yellow, and green flashing lights. I'm pretty sure they are extra-dimensionals also known by the terms Aeons or Angels. Some people think it's closed minded to not believe that there is life somewhere else in our physical universe. It's not really that closed-minded when you take into account that there are probably infinite dimensions and infinite life forms in this multi-dimensional universe.

Interesting..this last summer I witnessed a UFO alonside at least 1000 other people at the vancouver folk music festival..no I had no ingested my psychedelic substances..yet:d ..I was working at a booth helping some friends sell blankets when we noticed it, a bright light about the size of the moon. It stayed motionless in the sky for a few minutes, then rapidly zoomed off to another position at like a 20 degree angle, then zoomed up into the sky and got smaller and smaller until it was gone..people were tripping out and talking about it all night.

 

[fourthripley]

Reviews suggest the remake is rubbish, maybe they should have sent the original.

 

[bufoman]

It would be a great leap of faith to assume that these aliens would have the ability to decipher the signal, then assuming they have that they have deciphered it that they also evolved to detect the same wavelengths of light as us and that they detect the same pressure waves(sound) as us let alone understand our choice of linguistic symbols. But if they do, it is truly an interesting choice of a film to send. Additionally if parallel dimensions do exist it would be very difficult if not impossible for us to communicate with these beings as the only way we are able to detect forces and thus signals are via their interaction with the matter which makes up our sense organs. Thus we can only detect forces and things that interact with matter. If these forces do not interact with matter, not only are they invisible to us but we can not even build a machine to detect them as our machine would be made up of matter. Other forces may be utilized in a parallel universe so long as other beings made up of some "other matter" can interact with them and thus detect their presence. However according to our contemporary view of physics we would not be able to communicate with these beings even if we spoke the same language. It is interesting to think of parallel universes existing on top of one another but the forces just don't interact with one another. Thus I could be walking through an alien in another dimension right now but since the matter making up my body doesn't repel his bodies particles we don't interact.