To: familyop
LOL. I know the "aliens watching TV" thing is fun to think about, but it just isn't practical.
If our putative aliens on Alpha Centauri had a dish the size of the one in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and we could line the dishes up for a short time, we MIGHT be able to communicate. Maybe. With the right signal.
But not video.
To: backwoods-engineer
"LOL. I know the "aliens watching TV" thing is fun to think about, but it just isn't practical."
Ah, yeah--"I Love Lucy." And even though the ionosphere absorb or reflect VHF much except for times of sporadic E, it would seem that it would mess it up some.
51 posted on
05/21/2015 8:34:16 PM PDT by
familyop
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To: backwoods-engineer
Oops.
Ah, yeah--"I Love Lucy." And even though the ionosphere won't absorb or reflect VHF much except for times of sporadic E, it would seem that it would mess it up some.
Time to finish up some hobby figuring and kick back for a while.
53 posted on
05/21/2015 8:38:58 PM PDT by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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