Re: [OT] Friday the 13th
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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!
Uh, yeah. Right. I forgot who I'm talking to. Sorry to offend you,
Mr. Bodine.
> > about Smurfs never made it out of the local region.
>
> If, of course, what I read is accurate...
Where'd you read it?
Hal
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