Kentucky tourist board urges aliens ‘don’t eat us’ as invite message beamed up to space

Kentucky tourist board urges UFOs to visit: 'Just don't eat us'Visit LEX

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00:00 This is the first time that we as a species have ever sent out a travel ad inviting aliens to come visit.

00:08 Lexington, Kentucky just beamed the world's first interstellar travel ad into outer space.

00:17 With the help of local scientists and scholars, VisitLex created an

00:22 advertising campaign designed to invite extraterrestrials to visit Lexington.

00:29 Using a modified laser, the message was aimed at the Trappist-1 star system, 40 light years away.

00:36 We're targeting the Trappist-1 system because we might actually get an answer in somebody's

00:40 lifetime if there's somebody there watching. All of the things that we've been beaming into

00:45 space, why not a positive, friendly message? I think saying, "Hey, we're nice and friendly people,

00:51 we have horses and bourbon and dopamine, don't eat us." We have this neat hub of creativity.

00:57 It's just people who get to have the freedom to think a little bit differently. It does seem as

01:03 if it's this place that is very welcoming. Here's our chance to really demonstrate that we are a

01:10 beautiful culture, a beautiful community, and that we want to share that with the galaxy.