Alien text messages are out of this world
Brits are paying to have their text messages beamed into space in the hope they could be read by aliens.
Hundreds of people are paying £10 to have their text beamed into the cosmos on radio waves using a giant satellite transmission dish.
Users hope that because in space, radio waves travel forever, or until they hit a solid body like a star or a planet, the notes could be received by little green men.
One user of the service, James Hodge said: "I am certain their are aliens out there, and by using this, who knows I might get lucky and my text could be the first thing from earth they see."
Anyone out there know James? Now would be a good time to start sending him texts pretending to be an alien responding.
A spokesperson for sentforever.com say they convert users SMS into a form which can be transmitted in the form of radio waves.
"Using a high power transmitter allows your message to travel through space forever. The radio waves will get weaker over time, but be assured that your message will travel for an eternity."
After the users message is sent they receive a unique tracking number which can be used to track how far their cosmos correspondence has travelled.
They also get a 'Certificate of Transmission' ... on the back is should have just one word "sucker".
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