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Yahoo To Pester Aliens With Earth News

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You gotta hand it to Yahoo. When they do a publicity stunt, they do it right. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company plans to beam a digitized time capsule into space from an ancient Mexican pyramid.

time capsule, designed by Internet artist Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico, while also being webcast from October 25-27. The pyramid was chosen "because of its role in the preservation of ancient culture." The company will also bury the time capsule on the Yahoo campus, donate copies to the Smithsonian and The National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico, and beam the digitized version via "light beam" into space, just in case the aliens missed our previous messages. Vogons will drop by to pick up long lost fellow bureaucrat Dennis Hastert. Forms for the trip will have to be filled out in triplicate, of course, and plans displayed for a predetermined amount of time on Alpha Centari. So it may be a while. While we wait, someone should alert Tom Cruise to the expected rise in Xenu plots his next move, which we've pretty much narrowed down to some sort of Google/YouTube collaboration. This must have been why

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