Roy Lewallen wrote:
At the leading edge of the sphere of expanding analog TV radiation are
the Howdy Doody Show and the McCarthy hearings. No intelligent alien
would come anywhere near this planet.

That was the mistake IMHO of Contact. Although it would have made bad
movie action, there were many years of morse code and audio long before
"Uncle Adolf's I'm the Master Race and You're Not Show" was supposedly
broadcast.

Not counting the fact that the Germans did not broadcast it, television
in Germany at the time was shown in special theaters and AFAIK delivered by
telephone lines (anyone who knows differently feel free to correct me).

Long before Howdy Doody and McCarthy were two world wars and so on.

What I think would be more likely their question if they landed is "What
happened to the people who were going to go to the stars?"

While we may have faked the moon landings or not, 40 years later the
only way we can tell is to look up at the sky and hope we can see
something.

A manned moon landing now is just science (or historical) fiction. :-(

Geoff.


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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM
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understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation.
i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.