Comments on: Codex Futurius: Chatting With Aliens http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/06/02/codex-futurius-will-we-be-able-to-chat-with-intelligent-aliens/ Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Arlen Owenby http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/06/02/codex-futurius-will-we-be-able-to-chat-with-intelligent-aliens/#comment-2076 Arlen Owenby Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:20:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/06/02/codex-futurius-will-we-be-able-to-chat-with-intelligent-aliens/#comment-2076 This is a really good summary, I discovered your website looking around bing for a related theme and arrived to this. I couldnt get to much other info on this blog, so it was awesome to discover this one. I will certainly end up being back again to look at some other posts that you have another time. This is a really good summary, I discovered your website looking around bing for a related theme and arrived to this. I couldnt get to much other info on this blog, so it was awesome to discover this one. I will certainly end up being back again to look at some other posts that you have another time.

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]]> By: Uncle Al http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/06/02/codex-futurius-will-we-be-able-to-chat-with-intelligent-aliens/#comment-2074 Uncle Al Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:14:32 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/06/02/codex-futurius-will-we-be-able-to-chat-with-intelligent-aliens/#comment-2074 The good news is that the Milky Way is rife with trillions of thumb drives and more every day. Catch one in space, plug it in, become an advanced technological civilization almost overnight. The bad news is that the OS is Windoze CE. Plug it in, get a Blue Screen of Death demanding Safe Mode, then nothing. The project's managers all get performance bonuses for the number of thumb drives launched into space and how far they travel. An immense sum of money was saved, starting long ago, by eliminating the technical and quality assurance departments. They posted no revenues and were dispassionately discarded. The good news is that the Milky Way is rife with trillions of thumb drives and more every day. Catch one in space, plug it in, become an advanced technological civilization almost overnight. The bad news is that the OS is Windoze CE. Plug it in, get a Blue Screen of Death demanding Safe Mode, then nothing.

The project’s managers all get performance bonuses for the number of thumb drives launched into space and how far they travel. An immense sum of money was saved, starting long ago, by eliminating the technical and quality assurance departments. They posted no revenues and were dispassionately discarded.

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