The first telephone line for calling outer space was brought into operation in the United States on February 27th, 2005. Anybody who feels like calling aliens can dial 1-900-226-0300 and talk as much as he can at $3.39 a minute. A powerful transmitter will relay the call to space via a parabolic satellite dish, which is 3.5 meters in diameter.
Thousands of telephone calls have been transmitted to space since the day when the line became operative. The average duration of a call was about three minutes. The system providers intend to widen a range of services in the future. The users would be able to send to space their amateur movies, e-mail messages and digital pictures.
(Via The Anomalist.)
"No response"? Au contraire! I've been yakking it up with gorgeous spacewomen since the line went live!
No, wait . . . I'm thinking of a different 1-900 number. Sorry about that.
2 comments:
Mac:
Now all that we have to do is hope that any aliens who may exist have their own SETI-type program.
Paul
How much are they charging the aliens for callback?