‘We Have Bourbon’: Kentucky Scientists Encourage Aliens to Visit Earth via ‘Interstellar Tourism Campaign’
Scientists are encouraging aliens to visit Kentucky, and using bourbon as a way to do it. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)
The New York Post reported Thursday that scientists in Lexington, Kentucky, sent an invitation encouraging aliens to visit Lexington via a coded bitmap and pixel-plotted image. The message touted the virtues of Lexington’s most popular export — bourbon – and explained that Lexington was “fun.”
The invitation was sent to a star system 40 light-years away as part of a collaboration between scientists and an advertising team called VisitLex.
The message was made of infrared lasers and was sent to TRAPPIST-1, a star system with seven planets that could potentially house life. The message is set to take 38 years, 262 days, seven hours, nine minutes and 42 seconds to get there.
“We are targeting the TRAPPIST-1 system because we might actually get an answer in somebody’s lifetime if there’s somebody there watching,” Dr. Robert Lodder explained, according to thee Post.
Many scientists believe efforts to contact other planets and civilizations are a giant no-no, including Stephen Hawking.
“If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans,” Hawking said.
Yet, these scientists were not deterred. In the message, they included music from around the world, different languages, nature sounds and other images to demonstrate life on Earth.
2024: The Year of… Aliens?
Aliens seem to be making their way into the news a lot these days.
On Jan. 5, NBC News reported that a group of 50 teenagers allegedly caused a riot in a Miami mall after rumors infiltrated the social sphere that aliens had landed and were going to the mall.
Teens were setting off fireworks, which many believed to be a shooting, and caused panic. Four teens were arrested.
Yet still, many believed that the “Miami Mall Aliens” were on the loose and potentially shopping at Nordstrom before grabbing a pretzel at Auntie Anne’s.
The police responded to inquiries about airports being closed due to the invasion of these “Miami Mall Aliens,” and Miami Police Department public information officer responded with the following email:
“There were no aliens. No airports were closed. Nothing is being withheld from the public. LOL.”
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