War of the Worlds

'E.T. blog home!':

Is there anybody out there? And if there is, what will aliens make of bloggers signed up to a new service to beam their online rantings into outer space? 'We are giving bloggers the opportunity to send a piece of their lives into space to potentially connect with extraterrestrials,' said Ted Murphy, president and CEO of the Florida-based firm MindComet. Blogosphere meet atmosphere: The free service, BloginSpace.com, will beam web feeds of blogs - weblogs, or personal internet diaries - into deep space via a powerful satellite broadcast. 'I've always believed that other intelligent life forms are out there, and now, for the first time, they will be able to peer into the life of average Homo sapiens,' Murphy said.

This seems like a really, really bad idea. One of my trademark expressions that I like to use when people I know propose unusual schemes is 'what if it works?' In this case, it is abundantly clear that the most likely result should our blogging reach aliens is: