[backwoods-engineer]

The electromagnetic spectrum is a poor way to communicate over interstellar or galactic distances. So what else is there? Who knows, but that isn’t it.

Indeed, it is. Silly pseudo-scientific stories about other civilizations watching "I Love Lucy" and learning about us are nothing but bilge, and as an RF engineer of some 30 years experience, I have written an article to debunk such nonsense.

[PIF]

I have it on good authority that “I Love Lucy,” “The Arthur Godfrey Show,” plus movies like Hellzapoppin’ and doing big box at local multiplex over near Ross 128.

I’m not certain but I think these and many others were picked up and later transmitted by the GSV (System Class) “If You Know What’s Good For You, Don’t Bother Me” while passing some lights off this system.

The shows were such a hit with the over two billion people on board at the time the ship Mind renamed itself If “You Know What’s Good For You, Don’t Bother Me, I’m Watching TV”