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.
--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification
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