The biggest problem in this from my perspective, is that the traditional media was able to influence an open effort on the web to keep this censored. The traditional media has for a long time chosen what to report and what not to report. I'm not even saying that they were right or wrong in this particular case to not report the news. It makes me wonder just how open of an effort Wikipedia really is. The net is a tremendous communication tool, but we really need to fight hard to keep it at the point where we can say what we want without some established power censoring us. Sometimes people need to overthrow their government, Iran is a good example right now, and a communications platform like the net is huge help but only if we can maintain freedom of speech on it.

Wow. Your point about the creative settings in 2nd and reprinting lists in third is right on. I'm not sure I had thought about it quite like that before reading your post, but I certainly agree. Thanks.

The Voyager Interstellar Mission would seem to show that at least one civilization is not so paranoid as to be prevented from sending out an invite to a home planet. The golden record inside both Voyagers include directions to Earth.