Craigslist beamed into space

Wednesday, March 23 2005 @ 03:09 PM   


scienceCraigslist's "casual encounters" section suddenly has all kinds of new potential.

CNN.com:

On March 11, a company called Deep Space Communications Network beamed the first commercial transmission of a Web site into space.

The message? Over one hundred thousand separate postings from craigslist.com, the popular community Web site that includes classified listings for jobs, housing and other goods. The transmission included a date and time stamp, as well as an audio track identifying the message as originating from Earth.