MESSAGE BEGIN… I wish to object to the planned Intergalactic Highway. Yours, Mr A Dent.

Love the graphics Lewis especially the house with the huge satellite dish on roof. " Antenna envy " 😂

Considering the equipment needed to send a message to space, this really wasn't a bad deal! 🤣

Excellent, im 79 and remember those days well, and also listening to all the "strange signals " which I later found out was teleprinter traffic plus a fair amount of heavy jamming . Short wave was available on most domestic receivers and there was plenty to while away our time listening like Radio Luxembourg and AFN 😊 Thanks for sharing , 👍 😊 Ps, no spacemen heard but if only it was possible 🤔

The first message received from Earth by an extra-terrestrial civilization will be "We've been trying to reach you concerning your vehicle's extended warranty...."

You can tell a planet but there’s no reason to expect it to listen…

I rather like this format.

Voyger 1 is only about 23 watts and 15 billion miles from Earth. Flying for over 43 years, making the reception at about 1 billionth of a watt.

Thanks for digging into the most obscure of radio uses, Lewis. Things I never knew I would like to hear about. Best 73!

The AMSAT guys did a live demo of moon bounce at Goonhilly, during the moon landing celebrations. They had a guy on stage who sent a marriage proposal via the moon. So, basically same as Telespace were offering, but this guy got a reply. (She was stood on stage with him at the time.)

A bloke down the pub told me that, he sent a message and got a reply.

This looks like the kind of thing you'd see advertised in Omni magazine back in the 80s. A great sci fi / UFO nuttery magazine that is lost to history now, it always had great art work and far-out articles, with some serious science and SF mixed in with some creepy UFO hogwash.

Inverse square law makes sure that all radio signal fade into the background at longer distance. At 1000W transmitter at a narrow beam, this would only allow for 25 to 45 light year receiving area. I did search for this man, I didn't find anything.

If it is radio connected, I am listening, no matter what you talk about. Graphics are amazing, Lewis. 😎

These images are quite 50's Walt Disney... I like the vibe! But I see your view, not too much....

"There isn't much on these topics well there is One picture of this guy" lol made me laugh. Great video man!

Lewis: *_"This isn't going to be a regular thing going forward..."_* Uh-huh...😉

I've been beaming my signals all over the earth at 800 watts (I have an Ameritron al-811H amp) for ages now. If any aliens hear my Ham Radio utterings, they'll probably fly the other way...

Great Work Earthling Blessings From Taunton ❤

I very much enjoyed this story, and the illustrations added a special "back then" vibe. A very good post. Thanks!

This is a nice story telling format to bring the narrative to life. Like you say used on specific use cases will be really powerful. Great video.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Don't invite the devil in.

It would be fantastic if he sees this.

Nice job and interesting

" Space Shot. . .Watch out !!! "

Sounds like a clever Grad Student project to me.

Hi Lewis. Good stuff as always. 73 my friend.

*_How much does it cost to reach Uranus?_* {Hey, SOMEBODY was bound to say it eventually...😉}

LOVE the pictures

What a brilliant wheeze! You've gotta love a hustle like this... It's a scam of course, but assuming Kaplan actually sent the messages, it's an _honest_ scam!

And in just 30 Billion Years we will get an Answer.

Shoot I know the Superbowl operators would charge more than that!! 😂

This was fun!

Another very interesting video Lewis. Thanks.

❤the graphics👍

Haven't they made some movies about what happens when you beam things like that into space?

It's like something out of a Marvel comic.

I really like this type of content .. Good job, I would like to see more :)

The AI is just fine man. Don't sweat it!

Fantastic idea, might be time to revisit this idea

The UFO net is on 14300? Gonna go tell the boat people they got beat to the punch.

How did i not hear about this at the time?

I thought the pictures mixed well with the topic. Lewis, have you considered doing a video on the shortwave station the Brits hand built in the salt mashes in the early 20th century. That project was an amazing feat.

Thanks RM. Cool Pictures and Video. Take Care****

Makes you wonder how far our HF transmissions that don't return to earth will reach. Expecting an FT8 response from Alpha Centurai any time now!

I do recall seeing an add in a magazine once for Spaceshot. I do not recall the magazine it was, maybe BYTE but not sure. Love the graphics and and all the art. Cool story and all. Maybe make it a monthly corner chat thing or so. Like the trains and such. Peace

Lewis thanks for this clever sideline story. Aliens are smart, they choose not to respond.

Goodness, what a story to have uncovered! Where do you find these?

Interesting video, thanks. I thought that I was watching a Quinn's Ideas video at the end! I wonder what the Dark Forest will make of this?! 🤷‍♀️

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Hello. During my 55 years as a ham, I’ve experienced some weird radio propagation characteristics during contacts. Have also heard of the phenomenon of long delayed echoes, where a radio signal is heard minutes to days beyond its original time made. Also have heard of a 1950’s tv broadcast signal being received a decade a more later. Cant specifically refer to that story. It would be interesting to delve into lde and communications phenomenon. Randy Illinois.

You can just imagine a an alien radio amature doing his best to pull out the very weak signal from Earth, then CQ CQ - CQ DX ITALY CALLING, QRP 10KW, CALLING CQ DX AND STANDING BY.

Been beaming messages into space for over 30 yrs Nobody listening.

by the time a radio signal gets anywhere. it will be so garbled by open space radiation and “other” issues it will just be-called back ground static.

Wow signal comes to mind

How about a video for the Long delayed echoes (LDEs)...?

No wonder UFOs stopped coming to Earth... 😂

Somehow I imagined the voice of the narrator throughout the entire video… „Stanley kept on pressing buttons, in a futile attempt to be heard by an extra terrestrial species… oh Stanley, I should have seen the signs when you fell in love with that bucket“

Excellent examples of how little AI “understands” about antennae and computers 🤣

Wonder if Stanley thought to point the antenna to *where the target would be* in x million (or billion) years when the very, very, very feeble message arrived.

Not only would the language be incomprehensible and any aliens would need to be listening in the right frequency bandwidth but the format that turned the message into a signal would be entirely alien. They'd detect a signal above the background noise and that would start discussion as to whether it was a natural phenomena or evidence of intelligent life?

The topic and what you say are important. Not the visual (unless your topic is about a specific antenna site in the UK).

… And Elon Musk will take you to Mars! For a price…. 😂

The main focus for humanity and all scientists should be to debunk that what we're seing is any form of objective reality, then when we have found out what this is, we can start doing science. Until then it's all guessing.

there's no problem with using AI for pics since you are still creating original material. I'll un-sub if you pass all the duties over to AI, but I think the photo's really help to keep attention. AI isn't going away everyone, so lets just try to use it responsibly and hope for the best. I know... we wont :(

I grew up near Sudbury, Massachusetts and never heard of this, despite being a space nut that probably would’ve beamed a message out. But I can say your AI images look nothing like the real town. 😊

What's the music at the end?

Hello, Magrathea? How much does your basic custom planet cost?

Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine.

These images are nice for a few then get a bit old.

I guess it's not that different than sending a message via satellite, except it keeps going. I didn't hear about this before your program. But there was a NASA program where you could put your name or kid's name on a spacecraft going to Saturn. I listed my daughter's name on it. It might have been Cassini, which is bad because I think they crashed it into Saturn at the end. But at least NASA didn't charge me anything for it.

Send a message into space? Don’t you just point your Yagi vertical?

Waste of time - they will be drowned out by the 1.5 kilowatt hams ( not to mention those who go above and beyond, si si lol).

1000 watts isn't much

What I was meaning to ask you, if you want a good 5g network, are you better standing directly under it or half a mile away etc. Just thought you might have some idea.

I like the Graphics that you have created with the AI, they remind me of those seen in the Eagle comic and Practical Engineer 1960's. As for aliens, any who can travel light years to us we would not want to meet.

I also remember in the 80's or earlier that we launched a space probe that has a either a vinyl recording or some kind of tape on repeat that transmit all kinds of thing from earth. it was voyager 1 and it was launched in 1977 sorry not in the 80's but it was in the 80's that i've heard about it.

It's amusing that artificial "intelligence" can't spell "Massachusetts" correctly. 😅

It'll never happen again.....then twice in a row, don't make promises you can't keep Lewis 😂😂😂😂

If you took all the grains of sand in all the beaches of the world, that would be how much I hate AI ! 😠 Other than that, I like the video! 👍

intriguing story. we can snicker , but then there is SETI and Webb Telescope and NASA deep into deep space communication. Considering MIT was the brains behind Apollo program, it's not so difficult to think that Kaplan was intrigued or involved with space exploration and with his kind of creativity would have been ideal candidate for NASA or JPL deep space communication programs. After all, Voyager is still transmitting data. So maybe there is more to this story and Kaplan can be found in any one of large space exploration institutes. Is no more ridiculous than Sagan's gold record. seems a likely colleague.