Whale Song to be Beamed Into Space

Whale song to be beamed into outer space.  Horrific probe disaster and evaporation of oceans averted.  Former Admiral and crew imprisoned on charges of insubordination.  News at 11.

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[Todd]

Horrific probe disaster and evaporation of oceans averted, indeed. How do we know it isn't this reckless beaming of whale noise into outer space that causes the awful probe to come and destroy the planet in the first place? Maybe if we never let anyone know about the whales they'd never come looking for them. How do we know the whales aren't screaming about how awful these 'homo sapiens' are and some do-gooder alien probe won't come and wipe us out to protect the helpless whales from our terrible harpoons?

Or maybe in a few years a horrid probe will arrive and destroy the planet just so that we'd shut the hell up with our senseless blasting of variously-pitched squealing into the otherwise peaceful cosmos. How would you like it if someone set up a giant sound system on top of your building and blasted a dial tone at maximum volume 24 hours a day? "But the dial tone has been around since 1888, and it’s about time it shared its song with the universe" they'd say - and I bet you'd still have them arrested.