No - it wasn't little greeen men

[Handley_Page]

Aricibo has received old TV transmissions:

http://www.rimmell.com/bbc/news.htm


So that's where the missing Dr Who episodes went. . . .

 

[voluptuary_manque]

HP, uh . . . check the date of the article . . .

 

[JackLuis]

47 year signal storage in space revealed by a 2 year old signal stored on the interwebz!

Just to 'one up' you HP.

Alexander Graham Bell recordings played from 1880s

WASHINGTON — Alexander Graham Bell foresaw many things, including that people could someday talk over a telephone. But the inventor certainly never could have anticipated that his audio-recording experiments in a Washington, D.C., lab could be recovered 130 years later and played for a gathering of scientists, curators and journalists.

"To be or not to be..." a man's voice can be heard saying in one recording as it was played on a computer at the Library of Congress on Tuesday. The speaker from the 1880s recites a portion of Hamlet's Soliloquy as a green wax disc crackles to life from computer speakers.

1880 recordings recovered by 2011 technology!

 

[R. Richard]

HP, uh . . . check the date of the article . . .

April Fool. Gotcha!

 

[Handley_Page]

Sorry guys, I tabbed the wrong source.

The one that I should have got was saying that they'd managed to decode more of the mess and discovered several bits of Dr Who; including some bits which had "disappeared".