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Snack Advert to be Beamed Into Space: Will Aliens Like Doritos?

The makers of the cheesy snack Doritos launched a new competition today, asking the UK public to design a new advert for a unique audience: ETs. The winner's 30-second video clip will actually be beamed from the high frequency radar telescope in Svalbard, Norway, in June, directed toward a likely looking star in Ursa Major. Doritos are calling it the world's first interstellar advertising campaign, and who are we to argue with a claim like that? We do have one question, though, which all humankind should ponder on— is a snack food the best way to advertise intelligent life on Earth? More »

11:23 AM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Kit Eaton
5,609 views, 46 comments

Latest by johnnyabnormal: Purists, indeed. That same ad agency had me re-create Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" using only bicycle sounds: [www.johnnyrandom.com] I'd say the Doritos job was pretty easy compared to that. But, I'm not complaining: It ended up on more »