Comments on: Abducting your money

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:27:52 +0000

Sticks wrote:
“The map is wrong as it still lists Pluto as a planet!!!”

Whoa, three exclamation marks. Calm down, take a deep breath…

While it is true that Pluto is not a planet, it is still out there, and it is still a dwarf planet. Maybe the dogtags didn’t have space for the word “dwarf”?

By: wintremute

wintremute — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:54:13 +0000

Gotta love any product that uses comic sans to get its point across.

By: Toast

Toast — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:00:35 +0000

Dude, I love your blog, but using “teh”? So not funny. Not even in a deliberately ironic sort of way.

By: Chip

Chip — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:54:08 +0000

Aliens land. They abduct a guy. He demands they take him to a star named after him and pulls out his $40.+ “International Star Registry” “official” document.

The aliens laugh. “Never heard of that,” they say. “We can however use the names from your International Astronomical Union.” They open a floating electronic holographic page. “Hmmmm, Let’s see, your star looks like its HR 7001.” “Welcome aboard Mr. HR 7001.”

By: fos

fos — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:13:34 +0000

I have an Area 51 ID badge. Maybe I should sell it on ebay?

By: Kevin W. Parker

Kevin W. Parker — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:16:43 +0000

I got my parents a set of those years ago. They thought they were hysterical.

By: Hoonser

Hoonser — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:31:38 +0000

Sorry to break it to you, but Alien abductions are all localized. Anybody who tells you aliens take you on some grand tour of the universe are filthy liars. Aliens are only interested in abducting people for the purposes of intimidating them. I imagine wearing the dog tags would only upset the aliens. I mean how would you like it if somebody started telling you how to do your job? ‘Yeah I’m from Earth.. So don’t lose me now’
The aliens would probably dump them on a different planet just to spite them.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:17:32 +0000

Reminds me of a joke computer engineers created in the ’60s, where mass memory storage was extremely limited(a 200 kByte core memory from Univac sold then for $ 40,000.00). We designed a block of wood with 600 MBytes of storage and, for security purposes, was WRITE only. If you could prove you lost data, you got your money back.

Of course, it WAS quite expensive,,,

GAry 7

By: AndreasJ

AndreasJ — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:46:06 +0000

What’s up with that map?

Anyway, clearly these tags are unnecessary – you’ve never heard of an alien abductee who *didn’t* come back, have you?

By: The Centipede

The Centipede — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:53:59 +0000

Hmmmm… that’s an idea. A credit-card sized replica of the Voyager plaques…

By: StevoR

StevoR — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:13:18 +0000

Or both!

By: Sticks

Sticks — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:28:12 +0000

The map is wrong as it still lists Pluto as a planet!!!

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:22:56 +0000

BA, you can look on this kind of thing either as a jokey gift, or as a stupidity tax.

By: dave, very much

dave, very much — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:04:53 +0000

Say what you will — I’ve been wearing this dogtag for the last five years, and I’ve never accidentally wandered off this planet yet.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:42:11 +0000

So will this stop those little grey people coming into my room at 3AM every morning? I tried holding up a copy of Bad Astronomy in from of me, much like one would hold up a crucifix to ward of Vampires, but I lost it.

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:59:07 +0000

They probably figure you were abducted from Mississippi, and had the strong smell of alcohol on you. It’d make a good conversation piece.

By: keiths

keiths — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:33:14 +0000

From the looks of that map, they’re going to return you somewhere in Mississippi. Maybe it’s best to stay abducted.

By: Kaptain K

Kaptain K — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:48:08 +0000

I don’t need no stinkin’ dog tag. I’m an astronomy geek. Surely they have a nice three D map with variable POV. Give me a few minutes and I’ll be able to say “take me to the star nearest to that POV”. Once there, finding Texas is easy!

By: Quiet Desperation

Quiet Desperation — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:36:12 +0000

I support this product and/or service.

By: Chip

Chip — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:24:28 +0000

A total hipster-UFO believer could have the whole thing (including a diagram of the hydrogen atom) tattooed on their body. The aliens have been known to take away Earthling’s clothes.

But then again, just get a crop circle tattoo and you’d at least be returned to Kansas or England.

By: uknesvuinng

uknesvuinng — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:34:41 +0000

I’d rather have my towel.

Now, if I could get the information printed on a towel…

By: bassmanpete

bassmanpete — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:14:31 +0000

But the map on the tag is wrong… It could only work if the Mediterranean dissapeared, and a huge river formed across Russia.

Maybe it’s an ad from the future when Africa has crashed into Europe, closing up the Mediterranean

By: JediBear

JediBear — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:13:37 +0000

NASA people figured that the aliens who found pioneer 10 would be bigtime geeks like them. Not Klingons, for example, who would blow it up out of boredom,

By: Crudely Wrott

Crudely Wrott — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:11:35 +0000

This would be redundant information for the aliens that abducted you since they plainly know quite well where they were when they abducted you. It would only be informative to the other aliens that abducted you from the aliens that abducted you from Earth. Now them’s some looooong odds.

By: The 327th Male

The 327th Male — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:07:43 +0000

Funny as a joke, but they wouldn't work. The map to our star is indicated by the pulse frequency of various pulsars. This requires a standard unit of time to measure. The original plaques defined this unit by using a diagram of the hydrogen atom. As this diagram is missing from the dogtags, they would be useless. Then again if you are seriously worried about alien abductions incorrect dogtags are probably the least of your worries.