[meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newlyfoundplanet?

From: Thunder Stone <stanleygregr_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 10:00:50 -0700
Message-ID: <SNT117-W87ABA4E0AD1B42BCD3BB3D26F0_at_phx.gbl>

Would you contact us after hearing (seeing?) our radio and TV broadcasts?... hmmm

Interesting stuff

Greg S.

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> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 09:13:59 -0700
> From: steve.dunklee at yahoo.com
> To: sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net; geozay at aol.com; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newlyfoundplanet?
>
> you are forgetting the first commercial radio stations. WJR which was WCX began broadcasting in 1922 . Thats about 88 light years of radio signals from Detroit. I wonder what they would think of us hearing music and shows like "the lone ranger" and "flash gordon" . If there is anyone out there. Cheers Steve
>
> On Wed Oct 6th, 2010 6:11 PM EDT Sterling K. Webb wrote:
>
> >We have already sent them "I Love Lucy," just
> >by broadcasting it from October 15, 1951 to
> >May 6, 1957. In the Fifties, the radio brightness
> >of the Earth was about 700 times greater than
> >our Sun's radio brightness. A bright radio source
> >in orbit about a G-class star is like firing up a
> >beacon for everyone within 50 lightyears, one
> >that screams "Yoo-Hoo!"
> >
> >There are about 2000 stars (in 1400 star systems)
> >within 50 lightyears of us, all of whom have gotten
> >all the episodes of "I Love Lucy" by now. About 133
> >of these stars are similar to our Sun. Here's a map
> >of our Neighborhood:
> >http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/50lys.html
> >and Gliese 581 isn't bright enough to make the
> >cut; it's not on the map. Nobody cares about red
> >dwarves...
> >
> >There are 33 stars with 12.5 lightyears of us.
> >http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/12lys.html
> >Most of those stars could have sent us a message
> >after they watched the first episode of "Gunsmoke"
> >and we would have had the message before the show
> >went off the air.
> >
> >An alien civilization fascinated by "Soul Train"
> >(and who isn't?) could have watched the first few
> >years of the show and sent us a message we'd have
> >by now out to 20-22 lightyears.
> >
> >Maybe we won't hear from them until they find
> >out their favorite show was cancelled? Or maybe
> >they're satisfied to just watch the re-runs of
> >"Star Trek"?
> >
> >
> >Sterling K. Webb
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> >>
> >>
> >>>> Ok then - how about a Radio Transmission. I would assume we are doing
> >> this. What would we send?<<
> >>
> >> How about all the re-runs of I Love Lucy?
> >> GeoZay
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