Intelligent life? - Nick Wade

So, whose excited about writing text messages to send to the “possible” intelligent life out there in the vastness of space? I know I am, no doubt they will receive our text messages on their little mobile phones and read with avid excitement (for some unknown reason aliens can now understand English) and when they are through reading they will jump right on their space shuttles and rush out here to meet us embracing us like long lost brothers… My god when did the world all of a sudden become retarded. Yes its NASA who’s in charge of this, all the brightest minds earth has to offer and what’s their latest project? Oh that’s right, its sending text messages 29 light years away to a planet that could “theoretically” house life. Why don’t we stop wasting time texting the dam planet and start figuring out a way to get there. As fun as text messaging can be am I the only one to notice that earth is on a downward slope? We finally find a potential saviour for our race, a new planet for us to colonise but what do we do? We freaking text it. Parents on Oprah always complaining always worrying, do my kids text too much? Is texting bad? Will they develop necessary social skills? Stop worrying about teenagers, start worrying about NASA. I think perhaps the second we as a species adopted the idea to send texts to a planet we proved to the universe that we don’t deserve to colonise it and spread the noxious waste that is the human race.