Send a message to the nearest Earth-like planet outside our Solar System!

If you like Twitter, you’ll love www.HelloFromEarth.net.

The Australian website allows you to send a message of up to 160 characters to Gliese 581d, a planet outside our Solar System which may support life. The service, which accepts your glory thoughts until 5pm Monday 24 August 2009 Sydney time (07:00 GMT Monday 24 August 2009), as of this writing received some 7.035 entries.

The delivery time expected for the “messages in a bottle” is approximately 20 years, according to HelloFromEarth.net and they don’t guarantee any response. :-)

Australian’s Science Minister Kim Carr submitted the first message to kick off the project: “Hello from Australia on the planet we call Earth. These messages express our people’s dreams for the future. We want to share those dreams with you.”

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All messages are moderated, so you’ve got no chance to flame, blame or otherwise offend our alien neighbors. HelloFromEarth also has a list of “Best Messages So Far”. The current #1: “If you come to earth look into: music, the beach, ice cream, hugs, family, love, dancing, cheese, trampolines, friendship, books and dreams. Just for a start.”