These Guys Want To Broadcast Your Tweets To An Alien Planet

Humans have always had a fascination with space, from our early hunter-gatherer days of using constellations to navigate to broadcasting a Beatles song into deep space. And now, it looks like we’re going to start tweeting… to aliens.

Artists Nathaniel Stern and Scott Kildall have created an artsy-science project called “Tweets In Space” that proposes to send 140 character snippets to potential life-forms out in the black.

Specifically, they’re going to transmit tweets to the newly discovered “super-Earth” planet GJ 667Cc, which is five times larger than Earth itself but which scientists believe is a candidate for a planet able to support life.

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