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Comments on Earth Barcoded For Alien Convenience
A seemingly innocent art project meant to get you thinking about our real and virtual worlds is so much more, if you know how to look at it. (Read
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"Since I know that, sooner or later, someone will bring up the famous figures drawn on hundreds of square kilometers on the Plain of Nazca, in the Peruvian Andes; here is a picture:
 (Lines on the Nazca plains) " (Bill Christensen 12/8/2006 5:55:00 AM) |
| "Easy lookup aliencode on satellitepictures by address or zipcode wordwide?
Then try PICSFROMSPACE, LOOKUP YOUR PLACE BY ADDRESS, since september 12th available at:
http://www.walweb.nl/picsfromspace" (walweb 12/8/2006 2:47:29 PM) |
| "The natural crop circles that appear on earth show you that the aliens have already left us messages in a language other than bar codes, so why do the Germans think they are using barcode technology or will understand that? " (gina 12/8/2006 2:58:58 PM) |
| "i can only imagine." (mike 12/9/2006 7:49:18 PM) |
| ""Spent a considerable amount of time,.." How long is that? Given that a 'natural' crop circle appears over night." (Bizw 12/12/2006 5:58:34 AM) |
| "If aliens really wanted to contact our population to announce their existance in a visual way, I suspect they would create a giant figure on the moon because the moon is visable from almost everywhere on earth." (Brian 12/12/2006 12:40:00 PM) |
| "Brian - you're right. They would probably try to create some sort of likeness that we would be familiar with - as opposed to a giant 'Spider in the Moon' or 'Cephalopod in the Moon.'" (Bill Christensen 12/12/2006 6:10:24 PM) |
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