> or LinkedIN transactional emails?

Certainly not the only one to think of LinkedIn; http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/signal...

In fact the LinkedIn invite seems to work as the "universal caption" for every New Yorker comic ever:

http://time.com/4046328/new-yorker-linkedin-caption/

So it's clearly the pinnacle of human civilization. It makes perfect sense that it's the message an alien intelligence would want to send us too.

That's a great modern twist on the original idea that every New Yorker cartoon works then the text is changed to, "Christ, what an asshole."

wow, great minds...I guess.

LOL'd at the Paddy Cosgrave reference