Yeah but for the benefit of what I'm trying to write what distance should I park to get a clear signal of old Earth radio or TV
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Yeah but for the benefit of what I'm trying to write what distance should I park to get a clear signal of old Earth radio or TV
It was rebroadcast by TV networks all over the globe.
Don't you mean all across the disk /s runs off
Man, I wish I could read those scripts.
I know...but the implication, for me anyway, was that it was the original broadcast...which I watched.
Our broadcasts were pretty powerful, 50,000, 100,000 watts. Megawattage radar. But...we have the inverse square law in effect since the signal left the WKRP transmitter and then swept past your ship four years later. That's a lot of lost power.
Im not a ham or shortwave guy. Educated wild-assed guesses are my superpower
IF BG took place (Some believe there may yet be brothers of man... who even now fight to survive - somewhere beyond the heavens!) in 1978, then they're about ten light years away.
We now return to remembering GG? Sorry for the tangent.
Or kryptonite.Im not a ham or shortwave guy. Educated wild-assed guesses are my superpower
Astronomer Seth Shostak is quoted on this matter (source):
The farther the signal travels, the bigger the antenna needed to detect it in a way that would be comprehensible.
Aliens would have an easier time recognizing the artificial nature of high-powered radio telescope transmissions and radars than ABC programming, let alone WKRP.
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Trouble with the idea is that Galactic intercepts the Apollo 11 transmission. Then arrives at Earth around 1980 after several years as one of the main characters in Galactica 1980 is a grown up "Boxy", Apollo 11 was in 1969. If it was that many years for Galactica wondering around, means if was probably in the Sol System during the last episode of the first season, which was probably in the year 1969.
I don't want to start an off-topic distraction or debate, but I'll offer a post I wrote recently about this, for peoples' consideration. Maybe people disagree. Doesn't matter; YMMV.
In a universe with FTL, as BSG was, such conclusions about when events must take place are presumptive, and having canon declare otherwise need not be contradictory in-universe. They describe the signal they are picking up in terms of Galactica technobabble and not real world terms: a Gamma frequency signal that's probably intergalactic in their estimation, that could have been transmitted a hundred yahrens ago or more. Given that Gamma frequencies were being received when their scanner was set for long-range communications, and that they are not concluding that an intergalactic signal must have been travelling for millions of years (or even with absolute necessity just thousands), the reception of an FTL signal under their technology seems plausible enough. [transcript of TOS BSG S1E24] Maybe the signal fell into a wormhole, or maybe normal radio emissions result in FTL effects, unknown to us, that Galactica can detect as "Gamma frequencies."
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/str...r-one-kirk-sequel-series.319764/post-15316005
Try the final season of PICKET FENCES....while ignoring the majority boring ones David E. Kelley didn't write.
Ah, exactly what Candelicious Ghost was looking for.
How about season 8 of 24 when Jack Bauer goes on his revenge rampage?
The only thing good about Dexter season 6 was Brother Sam but that wasn't one episode.
and I was grateful for that, very informative
You mean they made 8 seasons of that...... Did they lose the gimmick of it being filmed in 24 hours, remember the very first series when they made this huge song and dance about how they filmed it all in 24 hours and you were meant to watch it like that.
I gave up after the first season because I figured they'd drop the gimmick anyway and too many things happened in the first series that just seemed too convenient
The 24 episodes ended up being a hindrance in later seasons because they never had enough material for 24 episodes. A lot of supporting characters with B-plots involving personal issues that just brought the show to a halt.
Also, everywhere the characters had to drive to was only 10 minutes away. And the number of times there were snipers or moles just got old.
I mean for the very first series it was a unique gimmick but little else. I did watch that one and that's the only one I watched but I did it in a normal manner 1 episode per every 2nd day, once was enough
Season 1, they had a tight 13 episodes in case they got canceled. You can sort of tell they didn't have the next 11 episodes planned out.
I think it might've been better if they had gone with the anthology idea. Same actors in new roles and new settings. And then after a few seasons, surprise, we're doing a season 2 of a previous season!
Totally agree. CTU must have been a terrible organisation. They had moles all the time