Topic: Can our TV signals be picked up on other planets?

[Simon]

A television company has joined forces with a social networking site to send a message to the nearest theoretically inhabitable planet. But can our television and radio broadcasts already be picked up in space?



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7544915.stm

[sam]

lol. It will take a very long period of time... also our transmitters aren't really as powerful as they once were. Still though, why not - is a fundamental thing about the Drake equation that we aren't doing ourselves (broadcasting our existence).  Thought I'm pretty sure that www.bloginspace.com has been doing this for quite sometime.

[Simon]

So, in a galaxy far away, they could be seeing the moon landings!   

[sam]

lol.. bit lame isn't it!

oh and that should probably be on a planet within 50 light years ... doesn't really have the same ring to it though does it!

[David]

So, in a galaxy far away, they could be seeing the moon landings!   

Or maybe even your landing Simon...........mine needs redecorating so hope they dont look in here...

[Simon]

By the time you've finished, David, it could have been quicker and cheaper to move house!   

[David]

Everything came to a halt as I am in dispute with s999ding builders in bathroom so cannot finish....I HATE builders 

[Sandra]

I hope that you arent being racist David, some of those Poles are really nice people 

[David]

I would love it if  they were poles...........these are the wrost kind   English.....who all speak the same language...begins with B and ends with an S.....If they had of been poles at least I could have hung my towels on something