SETI failure: Extinguishing our moral values

“A vote for Republicans is truly a vote for preservation of the Constitution. The Republic will be dead when Democrats gain their apparent goal to abrogate the Constitution and extinguish the moral values our Forefathers cherished that have carried our nation to greatness. The American experiment has never been in more jeopardy.”

Ed Cognoski responds:

Today's failure in our Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence comes from the Dallas Blog, where our deep space antenna picked up the above transmission from a reader named RelicMM. It sounds like English but does it indicate an intelligent source? It was in the comments section of a blog entry about the Republican Party's chances in local elections in Dallas County.

Let's see, the national Republicans are giving us signing statements, secret prisons, torture, wiretapping and revoking habeus corpus. On the other hand, the Dallas County Democrats are focused on school funding, child protection, and capping sales taxes. Yes, those county Democrats are putting the American experiment in grave jeopardy alright. Maybe on RelicMM's planet.

The above quote was reason enough to select RelicMM as today's SETI failure. But then our deep space antenna picked up another RelicMM communication that sealed the selection. This time, RelicMM offers his take on medical science: "The reason scientists are trying to bring embryonic stem cells into the limelight is because they want to prove that they can improve on what God has created."

RelicMM... today's SETI failure.