Feedback New Year Competition results
This week we publish the winning entries in our New Year Competition. The challenge was to compose a text message of no more than 160 characters, sent home by an alien who has just arrived on our planet.
The 300-plus entries we received have been entertaining and thought-provoking. It has been sobering to discover how many readers think an alien would not be impressed by Earth, and especially not by the way we humans are looking after it. This view is expressed in many entries by the simple phrase: “No intelligent life found.” Many other…
