Backpacker420

Ygdonmir

If I'm not mistaken, TV signals wouldn't make it past the systems heliosphere and bow shock intact. I suppose the Voyager probes will find out soon enough, though. If they make it that far without breaking contact anyway.

I face palm at knowing what our first impressions would be.

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nornerator

I'm not exactly sure why traveling through the bow shock would destroy the information content of electromagnetic radiation from television waves. Could you elaborate?

TYSM

Is that graph for real?
Seems a bit too simple.

Ygdonmir

Well it's more or less a theory that our broadcasts would get a little scrambled by the outer influences of our star system moving through the galaxy but it's entirely possible those transmissions could still be intact.

And the graph is a bit simple but it looks accurate. Radio signals travel around 186,000 miles per second with light being slightly faster. Given that FDR first spoke on tv in 1939, I think, and that Alpha Regulus is roughly 77.5 light years away, the graph is still accurate enough to portray its point. A good find.