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

Unplinied link for Ripleyans.

http://twitter.com/h2g2_Guide/status/897699907309621252


Or, for the lazy:

"Greetings from Earth, come visit, we're mostly harmless!"

Is it picky to suggest that there shouldn't be a comma between 'Earth' and 'come'? A full stop, colon or dash would look a lot better.

Maybe the NASA subs will edit it.

I sure hope so. If we were to receive an alien probe bearing grammatical errors, I'm convinced we wouldn't take the trouble to investigate.

Well, I'm harmly mostless.

"We apologise for the inconvenience."

I think there are some companies who care so little that they should say "we apologize for the convenience."

It's official - NASA judges have chosen the short list:

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/message/

Go over and vote for your favourites!

Aw, ours isn't in it

Voted.

"Dont take life too serious, it ain't nohow permanent." -- Pogo

Only just noticed this thread. I think I would have started with "Do you speak English?"

Or, "Please, don't eat us!"

Well, they wouldn't eat clowns, because they taste funny.