Re: [OT] Friday the 13th
On 02/11/2009 10:11 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 09:29:03AM -0600, 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.
However,
However? As in, "there is some significance"?
wasn't that the premise behind Carl Sagan's (him again)
Contact? Something about the Berlin Olympics being the first televised
event and by the time of the novel, the signal having reached the
nearest star (I forget which one).
--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification
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