SETI@Home

[davywavy]

I have downloaded SETI@Home onto my work PC, this adding my run-time to the search for Martians wherever they may be hiding.
One thing that SETI say they'll do is that, if your PC is the one that discovers alien signals, they will allow you to name the alien race.

I mean, how cool is that?

"The tentacled monstrosities from beyond!"
"The menace from the stars"
"David's Space Bitches"

I just can't wait to discover my very own alien race so I can name them. I mean - how difficult can it be? There's got to be lots of aliens out there. I've seen Star Wars and Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica and any number of other TV shows about Space, and all of them are rammed with frisky alien ne'er-do-wells, desperate to make free with our Earth women.
So not only could I prove that we're not alone in the Universe, we couild also have a jolly good war with Johnny Martian and show him who's boss.

But, as a question to you lot - if you discovered an alien race, what would you name them?

Comments

[ukmonty.livejournal.com]

Oh, Oh, I know what you could call them!

"Yorkshiremen"

Although I dont think there is anything that Alien out there....

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

What a great name! It has a certain resonance of...civilisation...great deed...generosity..kindness...stoicism in the face of adversity.

[ukmonty.livejournal.com]

....avarice, weak beer and best of all we know how to beat them! Get a second rate welsh nobleman who is brought up in France to round up an army in the NW and hey presto - they'll all be looking for their horses!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Ah, but these'll be SPACE Yorkshiremen, and thus won't fall for such underhanded trickery.

[ukmonty.livejournal.com]

What? Like superior strategic skill, tactical brillence, actually brining the horses TO THE BATTLEFIELD and not trusting the Stanleys?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

In space we won't need horses!

See how your weak astrostratgy falls before the might of Moon-Yorkshire.

[ukmonty.livejournal.com]

A bit like your syntacs.

So, They are all infrantry then? Huzzah for the tanks!

And Moon-Yorkshire? I am not even going to grace that one with a comment....

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Of course they aren't infantry - how could that work in sapce? With a mighty rumble the massed armada of the Moon-Yorkshire Cosmocavalry crushes your puny tank regiments.
Next Stop - Lancaster!

[ukmonty.livejournal.com]

So, let me get this right. You want to go to Lancaster? Well I suppose you have been hanging out in Manchester and shopping in Harvey Nics. And you did buy thoese designer sunglasses and have been holidaying on greek islands.

And alegedly you can dance.

And you like designer clothes - a lot.....

Hmmm,

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

We shall pass through lancester, slowing only to dance upon the charred remains of it's citizenry.

[ukmonty.livejournal.com]

And comment on their dress sense?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Leather trousers with the buttocks cut out, I'd expect. it shall nto save them - and I shall not comment on your obvious familiarity with the dresscode of Lancastrians.

[ukmonty.livejournal.com]

I learnt it all from watching you.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Recoiling in horror from Queer as Folk no doubt.

[ukmonty.livejournal.com]

Well you did comment that you didnt think it was that accurate

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

And it's spelt "Syntax"

[ukmonty.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I just won a Fiver

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

No you didn't...

[ukmonty.livejournal.com]

....Oh Yes I Did...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Nah. Nobody with that much money would associate with you.

[ukmonty.livejournal.com]

Thats why I hang around with you, makes me look financially successful

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Yeah - only really wealthy people hang out with david, successful company director as he is.

[ukmonty.livejournal.com]

Great! So I will let you buy dinner next time! Nice of you to offer.

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

erm, you realise that most modern infantrymen wouldn't be in a tank if you paid them?

what with tanks being so vunerable to, erm, everything n'all...

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

Oi!