(December 8, 2011 at 10:00 am)little_monkey Wrote:(December 7, 2011 at 10:28 am)Chuck Wrote: What is truly amazing is the fact that it transmits from about 8 billion miles away with the power of a desk lamp, yet our receivers and signal processors are so capable that we can read its signals.
Somewhere, at about 50 light-years away, if there is civilization over there, they can see episodes of Lucille Ball.
And can apply for research grants to determine how a specie so comically inept can manage to assemble the technology to transmit images of its own ineptitude by radio waves for all to see?
