What this person is referring to is an incident in Britain in 1953
(IIRC). People in a certain area recieved an ID slide of TV station KLEE
in Houston (I think) one night, with a long enough duration that a few
photos of the ID were taken. When somebody tried to contact KLEE, they
found out that the station went off the air in 1950. This was during the
flying saucer mania, and people were talking about how little green men
from an unknown planet "bounced" the signal off their UFO located three
light years from Earth. What nobody noticed was that the UK and the US
had radically different standards for electronic TV (405 lines vs 525
lines, for starters) so if LGM were responsible the signal would not
have been recievable in Britain. I read on a website a few years ago
that the hoaxer who broadcast the KLEE ID had eventually been found, but
they didn't have any further details.
Also, AM signals don't escape into space like FM and TV signals do, they
just bounce around the ionosphere until they die out completely. We know
this as "skywave".
I remember seeing an episode of Amazing Stories (TV show) back in the
80s where these teenage experimenters picked up TV signals from a planet
20 light years away. The aliens had recieved our TV signals during their
nascent radio era, and faithfully recreated the shows. Thus "I Love
Lucy" with little conehead like aliens whose language sounded like "rolf
rolf rolf".
When KFRC (610 khz) in San Francisco changed from rock music to big band
in 1984, they would replay classic radio shows, complete with
commercials and announced dates. Word is that the cops would get
panicked phone calls everytime they did this...
Diverd4777 wrote:
If your writing a peice of fiction, you have to have rules for what goes on,
and then follow them
Even if it's static on the radio before the Monster shows up where the kids all
park,
- & JUST before it gets interesting -
you then have to have Static on the radio when the poor lone Cop, driving out
to chase a racoon off someones porch gets attaked .
- So if your picking up signals from the 1940s there has to be some corollary
local behavior to go along with this.
I think in " Signals", it was northern lights...
- And you have to give Poor Doomed " Lone Cop" a real personality & some
thoughts while he's driving out there in the dark, making his last call..
Dan
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writes:
According to our current knowledge of physics and the universe,
this should not be possible. A radio signal is an energy burst;
it cannot just hang around for 50-60 years. Even if it
traveled out into space, hit something, and bounced back,
the signal would be so degraded when it reached your radio
it would be incoherent. And time travel, except in the
neighborhood of black holes, doesn't exist. If I *did* pick up
such a signal, I would assume I was listening to a re-
enactment or historical tape, not an original transmission
that had somehow bypassed the normal rules of existance.
FW
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