Invite an Alien to Live With You Day
July 21 · Level 7 · #814 of 2238
A playful day for imagining that a visitor from space is about to knock on your door. The big questions: what will you show them first, and where will they sleep?
How it is celebrated: people write ads for a new housemate, draw up house rules for an extraterrestrial lodger, watch alien movies and argue over what to feed a guest from another planet. A team can also draft a questionnaire for the ideal alien flatmate.
In 1974 the Arecibo radio telescope beamed a short message toward the star cluster M13, with a drawing of a human and basic facts about Earth. Nobody should wait by the mailbox: the light takes roughly 25,000 years to get there.