Re: [OT] Friday the 13th
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/11/2009 09:18 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >> I think Bill Watterson put it best: "The surest sign that
> >> intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has
> >> never tried to contact us."
> >
> > How far out would broadcasts of "The Gong Show" reached by now?
> > Heck, we're lucky they haven't lobbed a couple of singularities
> > into the Earth by now.
>
> I read (somewhere, last year) that few if any general broadcast
> radio waves make it out of the magnetosphere. Thus, /Single Female
> Lawyer/ could never actually reach Omicron Persei 8.
But they have listening posts stationed around all planets with at least
semi-sentient life-forms on them.
But it is a relief to know The Gong Show, Dukes of Hazzard, and any show
about Smurfs never made it out of the local region.
Hal
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