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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
