[ExI] 2^57885161-1

[Mike Dougherty]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:35 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> Dave that thing about scaring away ravenous extraterrestrials thing is
> really working.  We have been sending out EM signals for nearly a century,
> and longer if you count all the stuff Tesla and the boys were doing, and yet
> so far every alien invader has apparently been frightened away by all our
> mighty Mersenne primes.

Spike, it might also be this: http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaFZTAOb7IE
(for those with the patience to watch 7 minutes of video to get the
same idea from under two minutes of reading the script)