I Moved

Hi. A little over 11 months ago Alien’s Planet was blown up by the powers that be (no, I’m not blaming Grand Moff Tarkin). I opened a new blog, got a new name and started over from scratch. I always felt it would be a temporary home until I found a new place to hang out. Well, I found that place. A good web host, a real web host. I’ve heard about it on the TWiT Network podcasts and decided to give it a shot.

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I am looking at Squarespace for my hosting.  I am currently under a free trial for 2 weeks and I will probably keep going.  I have moved all of the posts and comments to the new blog and it’s all ready to go.  Come on by and tell me what you think.  I am still tweaking the design, so bear with me.  Also, commenting has been disabled on this blog, come to the new one.

There Are No Do-Overs

Television and radio broadcast transmissions travel at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second.  The distance these transmissions travel over the period of 365 days is called a light year.  This means that some of earliest commercial television shows are about sixty light years away.  If there are any civilizations out around that sixty light year mark, they are now seeing our early television programs.  This little fact begs a question.  What were we thinking?  Another society, perhaps looking for other intelligent life in the universe, could currently be presented with a freckle-faced, wooden-headed character with a guy’s hand up his ass.  Yes, Howdy Doody is currently beaming through space for any passing alien vessel to pick up and possibly cause a universal incident.  What’s worse, in fifty or so years, this far away society will be presented with the absolute worst of our programming, reality television.  This will show them what we’re all about and truly show where earth stands on the scale of intelligence.