Morons of Milky Way: What E.T. thinks of us.

"In 2008, NASA beamed the Beatles song "Across the Universe" into deep space, sending a message of peace to any extraterrestrial who happens to be in the region of Polaris, also called the North Star, in 2439." (PhysOrg)

While waiting to checkout at the super-market I find myself overwhelmed by a re-occuring notion: we (humans) are idiots.

Check out this article that showcases some of the data that Earthlings have been beaming up to the cosmos. Some of my favorites after the break.

"Please send money. Any kind of money. Universal money is OK. Alien currency OK. Meteorites are good. Gold, Moon rocks, space junk also good. Send to: Maura, Planet Earth."

"An image of George W. Bush as the personification of evil, juxtaposed against Barack Obama as the embodiment of good, sent out by "X-Files" actress Gillian Anderson."

"Any life forms at Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti, meanwhile, will receive recordings of the vaginal contractions of ballerinas with the Boston Ballet, a renegade 1980s art project aimed at giving the galaxy an idea of human conception."

Since most of the destinations of these ultra-intelligent messages are hundreds of light-years away, I'm not exactly worried about our interstellar reputation, but I think its amusing nonetheless.