The website has been set up to mark national science week in Australia, and people from all over the world are invited to submit a message, no longer than 160 characters, that will be beamed in to space by satellites at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex.

The messages are being sent to Gliese 581d, a planet eight times heavier than our own located more than 20 light years away in the constellation Libra. Scientists have identified Gliese 581d as the nearest Earthlike planet outside our solar system, and thus perhaps likely to support life.
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"It's like a message in a bottle cast out into the stars," said Wilson da Silva, a spokesman for the project. "What's interesting is not just whether there's anyone listening, but what the public will say to intelligent life on another planet.

"The project is our way of showing that science can make the impossible possible. We have been to the moon and now, we can speak to the stars."

Kim Carr, Australia's science minister, hailed the project. "As a child I, like many Australians, stared up at the stars and wondered what was out there," said Mr Carr. "Now science has allowed me to send a personal message that may answer that question."
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Ik vind het een erg leuk idee en heb dus ook maar een bericht gestuurd.
Ga er eens heen en stuur onze buitenaardse familie eens een leuk berichtje.