The Aliens Of Star Iota Horologii Are Just Watching Captain Kangaroo

@Americun MORAN©: I was a kid as well, and since my mother told me NOT to watch it, and it was so controversial that they wouldn't even air it till 11:30 p.m., I HAD to watch it then.

(Nothing so alluring to a kid as being told they can not do something, or to adults for that matter.)

@Kakkoister: EM is still attenuated by the square of the distance. If it wasn't, we'd all be fried by the sun, for starters.

On top of that, the big bang would STILL be banging.

Coyote

@Tobin Lam: But if they're in the vacuum of space, doesn't that pose relatively no resistance to the waves, and thus can travel that far with little decay?

Kakkoister

@DoctorZoidberg: The answer is more than meets the eye...planets in disguise.

I've only missed two rings of TV! What an accomplishment! My life, it is a success---wait, where's Delta Pavonis in all of this?

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Wait, that brings up a good point... If were not broadcasting anymore, how will distant life continue to receive our signals? Maybe they'll thing we died and come check out the planet lol.

Kakkoister

@George Wong: Because Comcast is only paying them off for an advantage in USA, not space.

Kakkoister

@Mondoz: Well assuming they also tuned into NOVA they would know what we're talking about...

joking aside, the chances that another alien civilization communicates in even remotely the same way as us are pretty slim. One might not even be capable of recognizing that the other is a form of life.

Single Female Lawyer, Fighting for her clients.
Wearing sexy mini skirts and being self-reliant.

Hey I'm pretty good!

DorkSider

@George Wong: Does that mean the aliens are running away from our tv shows?

jacobestes

@smegz: The original source material usually is.

Kaiser-Machead

@Curves: Damn, I was a kid when that was on. Tell me you caught it in reruns.

@shadowplay: 'oly sheet, someone does remember....Bochco's biggest botch.

Ok so if they are reciving our broadcast , were are they broadcast?? American goberment don want to us to see friends from sirius or the frist game of alpha centauri?

Afmedios Noticias Colima

@MostlyHarmless: "Gives us McBill"

streetceltic

No wonder Aldebaranians don't want to warp over here any time soon!

aec007

@Kaiser-Machead: The book was better...

smegz

@facepuncher: Apparently, their battle fleets will arrive at Earth in 3 years to punish us for attacking them with Alf. Should be here just before Christmas 2012.

smegz

Question: If aliens are getting all of our TV broadcasts, why aren't we getting any of theirs?

BFKelleher

When are we going to start getting some fine alien sitcoms?

misterwho — according to my twitter feed, I'm still alive.

@lpranal:

But how will the people that live at Betelgeuse know they live around a star called Betelgeuse?

For all we know, they might actually call our star 'Betelgeuse' and call their own star 'Mr. Rogers'...

Mondoz

@DoctorZoidberg: You know WWIII won't end up all that well. Too many characters and you know the overdone pyrotechnics will just kill the entire story.

Kaiser-Machead

@Nick Huynh:

wait, verizon offers fios all the way out there but not all the US states? they must be paying ALOT of space cash.

George Wong

According to my calculations the folks on Capella are part way through the original Star Trek and James T Kirk has got them worried...

daqman

@rt100 is loving his new MBP:

nothing to slow the waves down completely, although the accelerating rate of the universe might put a dent in our estimations on when certain programs reach our alien friends/enemies

George Wong

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher:

that made me lol

George Wong

@DoctorZoidberg: One of the few times when the sequel was better than the original. So to speak.

@DoctorZoidberg: FUTURAMA?!?! Blasphemy!

Think Orson Welles, then come back...

closhedbb

@DoctorZoidberg: I do not understand. Why doesn't Ross, the largest Friend, simply eat the other Friends?

@Jimmy From The Block: Dude, it's hilarious!! I don't want to spoil anything, but remember Phelorgrem from Xeeert!: The Movie? Well... when those two get togeather!! Whooo!

DoctorZoidberg

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: except in space, it's a vacuum. so what is there to encounter?

@Froggore: From the guy above you?

DoctorZoidberg

@Serolf Divad: Gillian's Island... those poor people...

@Tobin Lam: Sure. Ruin our good time with your fancy "Science".

DoctorZoidberg

@lpranal: I have to disagree... World War II's villian was WAAAY better than the Kaiser. Introducing Japan may have just been pandering to those complainers from the first one about how we could have kicked Germany's butt single-handedly, but it was still a nice touch to see that they're the ones who actually brought us into the war.

DoctorZoidberg

@Kaiser-Machead: I wouldn't mind seeing the Thermian version of "Seinfeld" though...

DoctorZoidberg

@closhedbb: We've already made that Futurama reference...

DoctorZoidberg

@lpranal:

yea, it just had a couple of bigger explosions.

SgtBeavis

DAMN! We didn't send an HD Converter box out on Voyager. These guys are gonna be PISSED when their TV's don't work 50 years from now!!!

johncon3

@MaNiFeX: Nah they will probably be like oh thats what happened to that retard we sent over there.

@YotaLoLux: If the Starship Reliant shows up, pretend you're not there.

Perhaps they'll forgive us for "The Mother's In Law".

Perhaps.

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@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Electromagnetic radiation, ie radio waves and similar emission all travel at the speed of light.

Its the data rate that is not equal.

Uh oh. ALF might get our asses blowed up.

I wanna get the aliens tv signals so that I know what will happen in the next season of life with blort.

I estimate we have twenty years left until total eradication. Once Flava of Love gets to Eridani, they will quickly invent warp drives for the sole purpose of coming over and nuking us out of our miserable pathetic existence.

@MostlyHarmless: Morbo agrees.

Everyone in our galactic neighbourhood has been getting our TV for years, thats how they know there is no intelligent life on this planet.

@MostlyHarmless: lol - excellent.

DaiWalka

Heh, I work for Regulus. It's lonely out here.

Hopefully they don't have Comcast.

four12

@victorkruger: and that they ate kittens, which is probably true anyway

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: bahahahahaha. i hope they have a coupon.

Nick

When Beetlejuice hits Betelgeuse, there's going to be some serious confusion / interstellar conflict

@92BuickLeSabre: the sequels are never as good as the original

@92BuickLeSabre: They did it on the same sound stage as the moon landing.

lies.

closhedbb

*sob*

closhedbb

@dingus: I actually love that movie :S

Kaiser-Machead

@tande04: Well, they can be significantly slowed and/or blocked by different things they encounter in our atmosphere or possibly in space.

Purple Monkey Dishwasher

@Tobin Lam:

True. If I can't get cellular reception in my downstairs restroom, then I don't have much hope that David Hasselhoff fans on Arcturus will ever see Knight Rider.

DonLuc

@cabjf: I'm more concerned about when they reach UNICRON!

closhedbb

You know what this means? We're going to eventually solve world hunger, poverty, and cease all wars....but an alien civilization is still going to come annihilate us to stop the spread of our evil....because they saw it on a rerun.

Crap, we're screwed.

@MostlyHarmless: Then just as I suspected.

@Kaiser-Machead: Arachnid pizza delivery glory holes? I'm intrigued!

@dingus: Now don't exaggerate. It couldn't possibly have been that long and depressing.

@92BuickLeSabre:

Yeah, it was the last of the true "War Movies."

Everything since then has been a fabrication designed to appear like a real "War Movie."

DonLuc

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: I'm pretty sure they travel at the speed of light.

Why wouldn't they?

tande04

@MostlyHarmless: That's exactly what I thought about when I read this.

stkr2008

@92BuickLeSabre: Didn't you see Contact? It was also awfully long and depressing.

dingus

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Ahahaha! Yes! You are correct, sir!

dingus

@92BuickLeSabre: I'm more concerned about an alien version of the Spice network making its way to our satellites. I don't want to see cephalopoid orgies, or arachnid pizza delivery glory holes. KnowwhatI'msayin'?

Kaiser-Machead

@92BuickLeSabre: It was the BSG of their time.

@92BuickLeSabre: first transmissions was hitlers speeches.

I wonder if they are watching Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and if its causing the same waves there that it did here. (Remember the alien shape shifter who came down and was doing the Sister?)

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Or maybe that's just on earth? In a vacuum I guess they would?

Purple Monkey Dishwasher

I thought this theory was disproved a while ago because the signals degrade so fast that they would be unrecognizable by the time they got to the closest known planet outside of our solar system. I don't remember where I heard that though.

Froggore

Hate to burst your bubble but the transmissions would be so weak they would be virtually indistinguishable from the background radiation.

Tobin Lam

I wasn't aware that WWII was a TV show.

Sounds awfully long and depressing.

@MostlyHarmless: Ahhh. Right up there with Amazon Women in the Mood.

@closhedbb: It doesn't quite make sense though, the time period between each ring is about 5 years in terms of the shows listed, but the actual time span is listed as 5 light years. I though radio waves don't travel the speed of light?

Purple Monkey Dishwasher

@Geisrud: Until Pornos Alpha, Euphorisphere or LEGO Beta are discovered, earth is the center of my universe :P

Kaiser-Machead

When "Gilligan's Island" reaches Pi Mensae we're truly fucked. Just trust me on this one, guys.

So Earth is at the center of the Universe! Bastards are always trying to make me believe otherwise.

Let us pray to the almighty Gods that the Thermians do not mimic broadcasts from the Jerry Springer historical documents.

Kaiser-Machead

Haha, I only make it to the third ring before I find something I have never watched.

CaptainHoratioMcCallister

The aliens are going to be pissed when they find out we switched to digital and they will all need converter boxes to watch Family Guy

Purple Monkey Dishwasher

@facepuncher: i bet when it reaches planet melmac they're going to be pissed thinking that we thought their planet blew up and a furry puppet was what we thought of them.

victorkruger

Wow, they're watching a lot of stuff I haven't even seen yet.

@VenomIreland: Set your Tivo now!

jdale

So the starfighters are defending the armada and checking out Janet's nip at the same time!

ospreyguy

@cabjf:

Ha. was just thinking the same thing. I'm willing to bet it'll get there just hours before a Leno monologue

@facepuncher: formalhaut i assume. lucky them!

God help us when the Klingons see "Cop Rock."

shadowplay

This is untrue because aliens have fios and watch the same 5,000 channels have crap we have now.

Nick Huynh

@cabjf: About 1,000 years from now, give or take a couple.

i wonder which lucky star is getting to see Alf for the first time?

But when will our transmissions of Single Female Lawyer reach Omicron Persei 8?

cabjf

That means we got about 50 years before transmissions of "Lost" get there, and they get pissed off and decide to come and kill us all after the 6th season...

closhedbb

Single Female Lawyer!!!