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Posted on 03-07-08 05:45:56 PM (last edited by hydrapheetz at 03-07-08 02:50 PM) Link | Quote
We're sending ads for Doritos 42 lightyears away. Wacky! (via slashdot)

Most of the comments posted for that story are hilarious, too.

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Posted on 03-07-08 06:10:42 PM (last edited by Shion at 03-07-08 03:11 PM) Link | Quote
You know, if we start an interstellar war over Doritos and get our ass lit to kingdom come because off the lost in translation part I am going to be laughing my ass of in Hell.

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Posted on 03-07-08 11:45:29 PM Link | Quote
I bet you when we get invaded by aliens, it was because of this...but no one will realize it.
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Posted on 03-08-08 12:24:25 AM Link | Quote
Good fucking lord, you have got to be KIDDING me.

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Posted on 03-08-08 12:37:49 AM Link | Quote
I actually remember in a certain series' side-story, this kind of thing is exactly what caused a massive attack by an alien race that basically decimated most of their existance.

(10000coin bonus if you can PM me the name of it.)

Anyway, the fact they have to resort to this to get funding is pretty sad.

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Posted on 03-08-08 12:38:05 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Kles
Good fucking lord, you have got to be KIDDING me.


We're on the planet Earth? HELL-O?

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Posted on 03-08-08 12:41:30 AM Link | Quote
Hm, they should've used the ansible. We should probably keep Mazer Rackham ready, should things go a bit...awry.

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Posted on 03-08-08 02:09:19 AM Link | Quote
Jul - Post #2370 - 03-07-08 09:09:19pm
Originally posted by Kles
Good fucking lord, you have got to be KIDDING me.
QFT. Really. What the fuck.

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Posted on 03-08-08 02:28:22 AM Link | Quote
rofl




...yeah, I can't think of much else to say.

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Posted on 03-08-08 11:32:35 AM Link | Quote
Yes, it is something really important to 'broadcast' advertisements through the galaxy [...]
If there was technology to interact with people's dreams, then there would be advertisements for sure, like "This wet and hot dream was sponsored by Coca-Cola."
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Posted on 03-08-08 03:17:57 PM (last edited by CyclopsCaveman at 03-08-08 12:22 PM) Link | Quote
Barrista En Flambe alerts us to a stunt that may reflect the desperate funding crisis in British astronomy: astronomers have agreed to beam a 30-second Doritos ad to a solar system 42 light years from Earth. The transmission is being directed at the solar system of 47 Ursae Majoris, a star similar to the Sun which has planets and may have a habitable zone.


Barrista En Flambe alerts us to a stunt that may reflect the desperate funding crisis in British astronomy: astronomers have agreed to beam a 30-second Doritos ad to a solar system 42 light years from Earth.


astronomers have agreed to beam a 30-second Doritos ad to a solar system 42 light years from Earth.


beam a 30-second Doritos ad to a solar system 42 light years from Earth.


Doritos ad to a solar system 42 light years from Earth.


42 light years from Earth.


42 light years


42


That is best. Plan. Ever.

EDIT: Dear god, I am so incredibly lame.
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Posted on 03-08-08 03:23:28 PM (last edited by HyperHacker at 03-08-08 12:24 PM) Link | Quote
Jul - Post #2374 - 03-08-08 10:23:28am
Originally posted by Surlent
Yes, it is something really important to 'broadcast' advertisements through the galaxy [...]
If there was technology to interact with people's dreams, then there would be advertisements for sure, like "This wet and hot dream was sponsored by Coca-Cola."
And I'd enjoy the dreams but never buy another Coca-Cola product. Or much more likely, they'd be annoying as fuck and I'd sue for harassment or something.

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Posted on 03-08-08 07:16:27 PM Link | Quote
Really, stupid. Although I doubt anything will come of it. I mean, what if the situation were reversed and suddenly we get an advertisement from another planet. We wouldn't know what the fuck, and we wouldn't be able to do anything about it either, since we, and probably the other planet, don't have the tech to go to the source. I'm more concerned what's wrong with the Doritos people honestly. Do they really think that this will sell their product? If we do make contact, I'd think they'd deliberately boycott Doritos for interrupting their favorite alien soap opera or something.

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Posted on 03-08-08 11:51:15 PM Link | Quote

"We have recieved a transmission from a previously unknown quadrant of the galaxy, all-mighty master. Though it's language is strange and not ours, parts that we have decoded appear to mock our great leader, Doh-ry-toss."

"Mocking the leader is prohibited! From wherefore did this heresy arise?"

"As said, the region is uncharted wild-lands. Some barbarian tribe likely."

"Blast their planet with the cosmic-ray-generator. None mock the name of Doh-ry-toss and live."

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Posted on 03-09-08 05:38:57 AM (last edited by NightKev at 03-09-08 01:39 AM) Link | Quote
Originally posted by CyclopsCaveman
42 light years from Earth.
42 light years
42
That is best. Plan. Ever.

EDIT: Dear god, I am so incredibly lame.
I was wondering why they chose such a distance but didn't notice the number really until just now.

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Posted on 03-10-08 02:48:34 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by TheGreatGuy
I'm more concerned what's wrong with the Doritos people honestly. Do they really think that this will sell their product?
Yes.

It will sell product. I don't see why you people get so hung up on the "extraterrestrials can't buy this stuff". Crazy marketing stunts get more attention, more attention means more customers, more customers means more profits.

Kinda sad the astronomers needed the money, but for a simple request like that, I'd say it was worth it.
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Posted on 03-10-08 03:03:01 AM Link | Quote
So instead of using technology like this for something useful they're planning on sending an ad to some other solar system that may inhabit life and after seeing the ad any life that does see it is going to have no way of ever obtaining any of what was in the ad.

Yep sounds stupid alright

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Posted on 03-24-08 05:07:59 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Dorito
Hm, they should've used the ansible. We should probably keep Mazer Rackham ready, should things go a bit...awry.


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Posted on 03-24-08 05:32:42 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Apophis
Originally posted by Dorito
Hm, they should've used the ansible. We should probably keep Mazer Rackham ready, should things go a bit...awry.


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Seconded. That was amazing.

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Posted on 03-24-08 06:16:52 PM Link | Quote



I just bought doritos.

I think this thread might've influenced me.

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