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Comments on Earth Barcoded For Alien Convenience
A seemingly innocent art project meant to get you thinking about our real and virtual worlds is so much more, if you know how to look at it. (Read the complete story)

"Since I know that, sooner or later, someone will bring up the famous figures drawn on hundreds of square kilometers on the Plain of Nazca, in the Peruvian Andes; here is a picture:

(Lines on the Nazca plains)

"
(Bill Christensen 12/8/2006 5:55:00 AM)
"Easy lookup aliencode on satellitepictures by address or zipcode wordwide? Then try PICSFROMSPACE, LOOKUP YOUR PLACE BY ADDRESS, since september 12th available at: http://www.walweb.nl/picsfromspace"
(walweb 12/8/2006 2:47:29 PM)
"The natural crop circles that appear on earth show you that the aliens have already left us messages in a language other than bar codes, so why do the Germans think they are using barcode technology or will understand that? "
(gina 12/8/2006 2:58:58 PM)
"i can only imagine."
(mike 12/9/2006 7:49:18 PM)
""Spent a considerable amount of time,.." How long is that? Given that a 'natural' crop circle appears over night."
(Bizw 12/12/2006 5:58:34 AM)
"If aliens really wanted to contact our population to announce their existance in a visual way, I suspect they would create a giant figure on the moon because the moon is visable from almost everywhere on earth."
(Brian 12/12/2006 12:40:00 PM)
"Brian - you're right. They would probably try to create some sort of likeness that we would be familiar with - as opposed to a giant 'Spider in the Moon' or 'Cephalopod in the Moon.'"
(Bill Christensen 12/12/2006 6:10:24 PM)

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