Curiosity Rover to Aggravate Martians With Pop Music

[sorsa]

I know I'd feel threatened if that song was the first thing I'd hear from another species, and I'm not even an alien.
The blood of mankind is on your hands Will.i.am.

 

[F1ak3r]

Why not The Mars Volta?

 

[squidface]

Of all the terrible music choices...
Captcha: winning.
No. No they're not winning.

 

[Fiad]

Couldn't play like Rocket Man or something?

 

[Dwarfman]

NASA control there's a Martian war machine outside my house. They're wondering if you could turn the music down they're trying to get some sleep.

 

[Xenowolf]

OK, if aliens decide that planet Earth is not worth keeping, then it's entirely will.i.am's fault.

 

[theblindedhunter]

What? Why? I don't see the point of this.

Because they can.

Which is not to say it's a good idea, because this is a horrible song. Why don't they go for Vivaldi or Mozart or Beethoven?

They already did that, and those culture-less aliens didn't care!
Clearly we just need to keep probing space with different sorts of music until we find something they just can't resist. And then they come over and turn the planet into some kind of slave labor music farm.

...

I'm sensing a sci-fi novel.

 

[frobalt]

After hearing the song, I've heard the Martians are pretty pissed and are building up a fleet.

I estimate that their ships will reach earth some time around the winter solstice.

 

[RonHiler]

I know I'd feel threatened if that song was the first thing I'd hear from another species, and I'm not even an alien.
The blood of mankind is on your hands Will.i.am.

This.

That is the only reason I allow the Black Eyed Peas to continue to exist. Well, that, and what's her name is pretty sexy

 

[joshuaayt]

HEY!
When did we call an international vote for Earth's representative song? I don't remember doing that.
These fools do realise that if Martian Mudmen are actually hidden somewhere on that red rock, we've pretty much set our anthem in stone, right?

 

[The Funslinger]

Morton's fucking fork.
If they like it, then making contact with them will destroy humanity through the power of awfulness.
If they don't, we will be wiped out for our sins.

They'll either kill us, or immediately surrender on the grounds of 'if this is what you do for entertainment, we don't want to see your warfare'.

 

[NightHawk21]

Stockpile supplies my brethren for we sit at the precipice of the first interplanetary war in human history. When we have expanded across the cosmos and fought countless wars, humans everywhere will remember this first war and that first heavily autotuned word.

 

[idodo35]

first why?

also IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SING...

and boy o boy will j'onn be pissed!

(those are all of my jokes for this article, good day)

 

[Daverson]

What did you his name was, again? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKiTW4J8NkQ]

Now, if I were responsible for choosing the music for the Curiosity mission, for irony's sake alone, it would have been Jeff Wayne's "Eve of the War".

 

[mattaui]

So now what's going to happen is they'll play the song, and it'll get stuck in a loop and they won't be able to turn it off. Curiosity's got nuclear batteries, so that will be the soundtrack of Mars for the next few decades, or longer, until something breaks or the batteries run down.

I hope the rest of the universe can forgive us.

 

[Johnson McGee]

They should really play this Will.I.Am song instead:

 

[madster11]

They missed an opportunity by not having Intergalactic by Beastie Boys.

I want to be the first person to walk on mars one day, just so i can have that blasting as i do it, forcing 'I LIKE MY SUGAR WITH COFFEE AND CREAM' to become as famous as 'One small step for man'.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I'm all for it, in fact I think we should send Will.i.am and the rest of the Black Eyed Peas to Mars so they can do a live performance. And never come back.

After hearing the song, I've heard the Martians are pretty pissed and are building up a fleet.

I estimate that their ships will reach earth some time around the winter solstice.

What, you mean December 21st 2012?

Looks like the Mayans were right- wait a second, Mayan... Martian. It's a sign!