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Messages from Earth – including a photo of George W. Bush - have been sent to a distant planet that could be home to intelligent life.
The 501 notes, pictures and drawings were chosen by members of Bebo, the youth-orientated social networking site.

A digital time capsule was beamed in a high-powered radio wave in the direction of Gliese 581c, an "Earth-like" planet 20.5 light years away, from Ukraine's National Space Agency on Thursday morning.

The message flew past Mars within four minutes of being broadcast from the gigantic RT-70 radio telescope, but won't reach its destination until 2029.
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