I read this interesting article this morning from Seth Shostak (SETI) about the U.S. changing over to DTV. It never occurred to me until now:
Seth Shostak. "Aliens Lose in Switch to Digital TV." Space.com 18 June 2009. 19 June 2009 <http://www.space.com/searchforlife/090618-seti-aliens.html (http://www.space.com/searchforlife/090618-seti-aliens.html)>.
Now THAT is truly something to ponder. Wow.
I don't know how they are going to go on without being able to hear "Lucy..I'm home"! ;)
If I remember the "smurfs" were on just before "I love lucy"....
As Karl Sagan pointed out, if anyone is picking up our analog TV broadcasts now, they are probably watching Adolph Hitler preside at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin. :)
Maybe we'll start seeing in upsurge in alien visits as they start wondering why that ghetto planet in the hood with all the violent haters suddenly turned off the loud music that's been keeping them up all night. They'll be like, "Hey, did the Zorlocks finally destroy Earth?!? It's awfully quite over there. Oh no, never mind. It's still there. Oh well."
Soon they will be making "Contact"
Quote from: SCP Ellie on July 02, 2009, 02:28:43 PM
Soon they will be making "Contact"
I think they already did. It starred Jodie Foster. (sorry....I couldn't resist). :P
Aliens will be making contact now that is for sure.
They will land, walk out of the spaceship and say
"TAKE ME TO YOUR CONVERTER BOX!"
Or for those who don't have a universal translator but have seen "Mars Attacks"
"ANCK, ANCK, ANCK ANCK!
;D