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Re: UFOs attack wind farms! (4.00 / 3)

as long as it's not an appeal for new episodes of a 1960's TV series that has just passed their planet.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 10:23:38 AM EST
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Re: UFOs attack wind farms! (none / 1)

While on the subject of aliens, there are lots of other things to worry about as well. For example:

Biological contamination from space samples is a remote but accepted possibility. Signals received by searches for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) could also contain harmful information in the spirit of a computer virus, the so-called "SETI Hacker" hypothesis. Over the last four decades extraterrestrial intelligence searches have given little consideration to this possibility.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V1N-4H21K3K-1&_user=10&_rdoc= 1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVers ion=0&_userid=10&md5=00c26a87aa03043a27af57a9b49a86ee

by asdf on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 10:32:12 AM EST
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Re: UFOs attack wind farms! (none / 1)

Someone's been watching too much Independence day.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 10:52:55 AM EST
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Re: UFOs attack wind farms! (4.00 / 3)

Not to worry, the latest Mac OS comes with a built-in defense mechanism that will automatically upload a virus to the mothership of any alien attacker within the solar system. Way more practical than it used to be back in the day!

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

by NordicStorm (michael<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 11:56:53 AM EST
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Re: UFOs attack wind farms! (4.00 / 3)

And you think Steve Jobs and Bill Gates come from where - hmmm?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 02:06:45 PM EST
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Re: UFOs attack wind farms! (4.00 / 4)

Binary fission?

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

by NordicStorm (michael<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 02:23:05 PM EST
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Re: UFOs attack wind farms! (4.00 / 2)

Careful. They're going to have you turning your iPhone in to the ministry for that Jobs/Gates comparison.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 03:17:24 PM EST
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Re: UFOs attack wind farms! (4.00 / 2)

"Someone's been watching too much Independence day."

Generally I would agree with you (Independence Day was on TV a few days ago), but this discussion about alien computer viruses is in a serious article...

by asdf on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 11:01:48 PM EST
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Re: UFOs attack wind farms! (none / 0)

thta dosent mean the author hasn't watched it too many times.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jan 9th, 2009 at 08:14:53 AM EST
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