h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I cannot stand people who in the face of overwhelming evidence from nutters and scientists alike who still refuse to believe that there could be any other life in the universe. Fundamentalists I mean YOU! All this cr*p about man being created in gods image and so on is rubbish and you can help prove it to.
Go to http://www.setathome.com and help in the search for ET so we can prove these idiots wrong!

Nice server error message!

I think the URL you meant was http://www.setiathome.com ...
But go to http://www.distributed.net and look at other nice projects...

Can you actually keep the aliens you've found or not?

Read C.S.Lewis's "Perelandra Trilogy"; Out of the Silent Planet, Voyage to Venus, That Hideous Strength. Sci Fi with brains AND God.

I don't know if you actually get to keep the aliens you find but it would be fun.

So, I notice there's no mention of the late P.K.Dicks "Valis" trilogy or,
more recently Manchesters invasion of reality in Jeff Noon's "Vurt", "Pollen", "Nymphomation" etc

Yes, just like in that film about that alien...I forgot the name...with the flying bike and the moon stuff...

Anyone remember the orange beach-ball alien in Dark Star? They wanted to keep it to take home - proved to be unwise.... Highly recommended if you haven't seen it - more in the cruddy Red Dwarf than squeaky-clean Star Trek genre.

I hope you don't mean cruddy in a nasty way!

This is begging the question, would you really want to try and keep an Alien? They might leak. Or they might want to keep you.

I suppsoe there is the problem of different cultures and races doing things differently. For example what would happen if you pointed your brand spanking new alien at someone in the wrong way. You wouldn't be able to get the stains out of the carpet for weeks. And imagine if you touched your alien in the wrong place - accidently of course - you probably wouldn't make that mistake again.

Or you might find yourself 'having' to make that mistake again and again. Having just become betrothed to the leader of the invading forces.

I would just hope I'm not the *only* one betrothed,
say maybe 100 or so also betrothed to it. Just stay
at the way end of the line. Of course, I'll also have
to deal with the mind control.

And that pesky little bug-eyed thing making plants grow and healing cuts etc. Who asked him to anyway huh ?

HmmmThe possibility remains that she/he/it/them might choose from the end of the line, or all at once. Could put you into a rather squishy predicament.

Actually, as a person with a perpetually brown thumb ["How does your garden grow", actually not at all], receiving a little help from a bug-eyed neighbor wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Maybe I can convince the alien(s) I contracted syphilis or HIV.
If nothing works, then maybe I'll go through the experience,
hopefully become a boring alien toy and be rejected back to
earth, take 100 sonic showers, and sell my story to the highest
bidding tabloid magazine.

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
how does your garden grow?
Up, stupid!

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
how does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells,
and one lousy petunia!

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
how does your garden grow?
Wilder and wilder as the weather gets milder,
it's quite full of weeds, don't you know?

Sorcerer, you hit the weed directly on the head. A good green thumbed alien is probably what I need.

Xetilana, you could find that you have stumbled across thier secret to a long (although leaky) life (HIV or Syphilis) or/and you could find yourself insanely rich (tabloids), I would suggest putting on a Football helmet, a tiger tail out of the backside of your trousers, grin like a mad fool and tackle the nearest Hostess Twinky. Insanity frequently is a good defense. And you could still sell your story to the highest bidder.

I remember that beach ball! It's years since I've seen Dark Star, and the only things I remember are the beach ball and that bomb with the God complex. Oh, yeah, and I remember laughing my ass off in places. Does anyone know where I can get to see it again?