They're going to get our solar system quarentined for some unknown form of madness by those advanced alien civilzations receivng the broadcast.

On the other hand, why should Earthlings be the only ones able to laugh at the Germans and French? Let the whole universe in on the joke!

We've been laughing at the French and Germans for many of your earth years now! Oh, and by the way, we know how your human bodies are created, and how you spend your daily lives.

Totally stupid: everybody knows space-aliens speak English.

By the way, John:
Your solar system is already quarentined.

Drat! There goes the whole premise for the original "Star Trek" movie.

I, for one, welcome the improvement in the quality of television that will be mandated by our new alien overlords.

Note that once again Mr. Gots is correct — the space-alien read and wrote in English.

Rove is behind it. They'll also tell the aliens that occupying Brussels will give them control of the earth.

I found this beauty via slashdot where far too many commenters were actually taking it seriously.

Few supposedly non-political sites beat Slashdot (where the pugnaciously stupid and the aggressively ignorant do battle over the tediously inane), for bloviating pseudo-intellectualism and the substitution of predictable sloganeering for persuasion.

Raoul:

Libertarians are always serious, never more so than when discussing outer space. That's what makes them so funny.

Here's hoping the first planet that sees them not only speaks French and German, but has solved the dilemna of how to reconcile Whahabism with technological sophistication.

Incoming!

Important question: Are they Darwinists?

No aliens are going to think that humans are at the top of the ladder, so, no.

Speaking of broadcasting to unverified extraterrestrials in human languages, I'll take Mike Morley's Simpsons reference and raise him one. The Simpsons have just been abducted:

Alien: Greetings. I am Kang. Do not be frightened. We mean you no harm.

Marge: You, you speak English.

Alien: I am actually speaking Rigelian. By an astonishing coincidence, both of our languages are exactly the same.

And naturally I must mention this part:

Alien: On this cable system, we receive over one million channels from the furthest reaches of the galaxy.

Bart: Do you get HBO?

Alien: No, that would cost extra.

Link to above snippets here.

erp:
No, definitly not Darwinists! Some societies do thrive by practicing mutual exchange of community resources and services, rather than by survival of the fittest.

Klux - societies in deep space you mean.