[H-GEN] SETI at home

[Anthony Towns]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Anthony Towns <aj at azure.humbug.org.au>)

On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 09:53:50AM +1000, Gearon, Paul wrote:
> > They would have seen shows like Rikki Lake, General
> > Hospital, Days of Our Lives and Judge Judy. 
> Valid point, but our transmissions have only been going out of here for less
> than a century, and I doubt there's any life of significant intelligence
> within that range.  So fortunately they shouldn't have heard about us yet!

Hmmmm. Maybe we should pool our resources and setup a TV station that
broadcasts nothing but "Please disregard previous television signals".

Still, any such aliens would have seen _Buffy_ too. And if they wanted to
catch the latest episodes, they'd have to come here physically so as not
to have to wait x00 years for the signals to reach them.

Hmm. So instead of running SETI, the True Believers in ETI should join
the Buffy fanclub instead.

Cheers,
a "It's all so logical" j

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