Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/11/2009 09:33 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> 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 

Hey, the /DoH/ was a great show!

> about Smurfs never made it out of the local region.

If, of course, what I read is accurate...

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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