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Bringing a blog back from the grave is most fitting for this subject. Dead for about a year and abandoned by 4 previous writers this blog now has new life as of August 2010. Each writer seemed to add only a handful of posts and then disappear............ so join me while I explore the paranormal from the world of ghosts to parallel dimensions. A journey you will not want to take on your own.

Send a space message for Christmas

December 22nd 2008 05:48
STRANGE IDEAS


The Beatles once sung about words slipping away 'Across the Universe'. Well, if you're still stuck for gift ideas this Christmas, here's something a little different, if a little tacky - the 'space message'.


Via SentForever.com you can now transmit a personal message into deep space, which the website spruiks "will continue for an eternity".

All you do is leave your details, including your message, on the website, which is then sent to the British Telecom satellite transmission station at Goonhilly in Cornwall, United Kingdom.

British Telecom transmits your message in the form of radio waves into space using a large satellite transmission dish which is apparently dedicated to the SentForever.com service.



Once it has been sent the company sends you and the recipient of your message an individual tracking number which you can use to see how far it has travelled. There is, of course, also a certificate that will be sent out.

SentForever.com was founded in 2007 by Chris Thomason and Stephanie Baillache, who says on the webitse she was disillusioned with the way that standard greeting cards seemed so temporary in nature – often being thrown away just a few days after being sent.

“I wanted to find a way to send personal messages that was much more meaningful, and a way that would help to get across the feeling and emotion behind an important message,” she says.

"Chris and I started discussing how to make important personal messages last for a lifetime. We eventually came across a way to make the messages last for an eternity by beaming them into deep space, where they will travel for the rest of time.



"We formed a partnership with British Telecoms and have sole use of one of their giant dishes in Cornwall, United Kingdom to broadcast people’s messages into deep space.

"We transmit people’s messages of love, remembrance, prayer, engagements, marriages, births, hope and joy on their eternal journey."

She says they can transmit images, music, poetry – basically anything in digital format.

I only hope these messages don't fall into the wrong hands - like an alien civillisation out in deep space - 'cause the private mesage I just sent could come back to bite me.


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