[Carrie]

Looks like the aliens will come and rescue us in the nick of time!

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996341

:D (In all seriousness, this is a pretty cool story. Hope it turns out to be the real deal!)

[buster]

New Scientist is currently unreachable. On a hunch, I checked slashdot, and yes they are pointing to the same story, which you can read about here:

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl? ... =134&tid=1

[nigel]

By rescue us do you mean they might eat our population down to a more sustainable size?

[Aaron]

To Serve Man

[Soft_Landing]

Did you hear?

They just broke the code and are publishing the message.

This is what has been translated so far...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Space Aliens', 'B')ased upon our calculations, any civilization advanced enough to detect and interpret this message is about to deplete their most abundant natural energetic resource... Sucked in.

[Carrie]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')y rescue us do you mean they might eat our population down to a more sustainable size?

[lotrfan55345]

they mite have not used non-renewable at all...