Call to Extraterrestrials, messages, moon, ufology

Call to Extraterrestrials

December 26, 2004

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

(Bill Watterson)

If you are not an extraterrestrial, this page probably can't really interest you, because you won't have the sufficient technology to implement the suggestions found here.

It's getting worse and worse on this damn rock. The more it goes, the worse it gets. It's no secret. Everyone wants their atomic bombs and their vehicles to drop them on their neighbor's head. The UN has no power anymore, since the Yanks decided to do without the Security Council's approval to go hunt for "massive destruction weapons" in Iraq. These Americans, if they have a technological advantage that few imagine, which would allow them to reduce any country of their choice to ashes, have achieved a miracle: they have made everyone angry. On this point, it's absolutely remarkable.

I have friends who finally tell me "listen, stop teaching us new things, otherwise you will end up completely destroying our morale." But, by golly, what can I do?

If extraterrestrials wanted to help us (which would need to be proven. There may be some who are quietly waiting for us to self-destruct so they can occupy our planet), we know they would face a serious technological transfer problem. Any help would most likely turn into a catastrophe, giving military engineers a bunch of new ideas, who have already had enough by studying the UFO dossier. But while scratching my head, I came up with an idea I had already presented in the form of a fiction called "The Egg" and installed on my site last year. It consists of using the Moon as a billboard. Not when it's full, but when it shows only a crescent and the rest is in darkness. It would then be enough to place powerful enough lights on the surface to compose different messages.

There are several advantages. First, it's zero technological transfer. We have already been to the Moon and all that, we could easily do it again with rockets and all that stuff. The second idea is that we can work by modulating at will the credibility threshold of Earthlings. It's enough to play with the display time of the messages. When the observation conditions are met, there are N people who look at the Moon with sufficiently powerful optical instruments (at the limit, a simple pair of binoculars is enough). Among these N people, there are P < N who have photographic or CCD recording means. If the message is sent in the form of a brief flash, only the systems that can fix the image will see the message. Let's place ourselves in this configuration. On the day J, at the hour H, the flashing lamps placed on the Moon deliver their flash and on a certain number of telescopes the image is recorded. Imagine that the message is simply:

Hello Earthlings, how's your little health?

This is exactly what Pierre Desproges would have suggested and I have been inspired by his thought. There, I wrote this message in French, but it is obvious that it could be composed in any language. What would happen in the morning newspapers? Imagine a newsroom contacted by an astronomy club that declares it has recorded a message of this kind. Would they pass on the information? Maybe, presenting it as "something amusing."

In the following days, a certain number of amateur astronomers might confirm the observation, and maybe a more official, more credible station would join this chorus of testimonies. Of course, scientists around the world would rush to talk about manipulation, via the Internet, or something like that. At best, people would believe that a nation of the world would be behind the operation. Why not the Chinese, since they were considering going back to conquer the lunar sphere? (even though their 12,000-mile range rockets are simply sized to reach the States).

Discussions are in full swing. The NASA is questioned. The response is evasive. To answer "no, it's not us" would lead the Americans to reveal a strategic inferiority. Therefore, in all the chancelleries, the response is a smoke screen.

We wait for a moment and send other messages. There, we can't predict because everything depends on the return of the operation. A message saying

- Be nice to each other instead of fighting like fools

appearing every day in a different language could trigger unpredictable mystical waves. But we know at least one thing. The recovery attempt would be difficult.

Whoever holds the billboard that is the Moon holds the Earth in its power. One can really act on history. Imagine, moreover, that extraterrestrials have access to "sensitive" information and that, for example, appears:

*- My poor children, you're in a bad way.

• Every day we will give you the name of one of your leaders, randomly chosen,
  with his Swiss bank account number and his assets. *

General panic.

I say this just like that, but it is obvious that discussion would be needed. If extraterrestrials are interested, I have a field in front of my house, suitable for landing something quite large, in case. Otherwise, say that if it's less than ten to twelve meters in diameter, on my land, it should be okay. I have practically no neighbors and it is either bordered by trees, or hidden from view by a high wall or a hill. I have several rooms and two bathrooms. With my friends, we would be enough for a very open discussion about the content of the messages. Of course: discretion assured. I think the thing would be worth trying.

The disadvantage would obviously be that if the extraterrestrials were installed on the far side of the Moon, which would explain the remarkable absence of exploration missions to the lunar sphere, which is, however, practically next door (compared to Mars, it's five hundred times closer!), the appearance of the messages would trigger an untimely curiosity from a whole bunch of nations. The inhabitants of these countries would demand that "all the light be made as soon as possible on these mysterious messages" and that would be the end of the nice tranquility of the cosmo-club-med installed beyond our indiscreet gaze.

I thought about it, but, you see, besides this idea of displaying things on the Moon to make people calm down, I haven't found anything else.

**December 10, 2004: **

My friend Fred thinks that if extraterrestrials displayed messages on the Moon, it would lead to catastrophic consequences for humanity. There would be, for example, serious impacts on religious beliefs.

One could also think about the wave of suicides caused by the broadcast of Orson Welles, on the radio, where he was supposed to describe an extraterrestrial landing on American territory. Let's not underestimate the panic capabilities of the masses. In this perspective, what to do? The extraterrestrials could contact high political or military officials. But, as they say, if these ...