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