Is it true that the first human aliens will see is Hitler?

[Stylesjl]

I'm not sure if it is true or not, but wasn't the television footage of Adolf Hitler making a speech opening the 1936 Summer Olympics the first television transmission that was powerful enough to escape into outer space?

 

[Verbose]

It all escapes into outer space. Iirc London had at least experimental TV broadcasts by the late 1930's. They inerrupted Mickey Mouse for the outbreak of WWII.

It might be a tossup between Adolf and Mickey.

 

[Adler17]

Well, before 1936 there was already a basic TV program. The first real TV show was made by Dénes von Mihály in Berlin 1928, but only in a very little circle. A year later the radio station Witzleben sent first test images. The first real and regularly TV program was made by the TV station Paul Nipkow in Berlin beginning in 1935 (and lasting until 1944). Even before, in 1926 the first electronic TV test image was sent in Japan. The Japanese also tried to build up a TV network but ww2 stopped all plans, like the Germans. In Germany the first TV station could only be seen by a few hundred TVs in and around Berlin.
So my guess is, that even before Hitler was opening the games of 1936 a picture was able to be broadcasted into the space. So this first program should be the first pictures to be seen from Earth. However as the opening of the games was the first big event broadcasted, it will be very impressing to Aliens.

Adler

 

[Verbose]

This is all provided the aliens can pick out these faint emissions, filter out the noise and then build a proper receiver. Some aliens.

 

[silver 2039]

This is assuming that aliens exist in the first place.

 

[aronnax]

what an interesting thread......

 

[Joe Harker]

at the end of the war when the bbc came back the presenter said " as i was saying before we were rudely intruppreted"

bit of an understatement, 40 million dead at least and europe and asia in ruins.

 

[Mozza]

Apparantly the 1936 games were the first to be broadcast powerfully. It's likely they will be the first to reach other stars.

That said they wont have to wiat long to see that John Wayne saved the world and we're all OK.

 

[Dragonlord]

That said they wont have to wiat long to see that John Wayne saved the world and we're all OK.

10 char

 

[Nylan]

Hitler, Mickey Mouse, John Wayne, doesn't matter who or what they see, it'll scare them away from the solar system for decades to come

 

[Shaihulud]

Did you read it in Contact? I don't know the answer either.

 

[Disenfrancised]

at the end of the war when the bbc came back the presenter said " as i was saying before we were rudely intruppreted"

bit of an understatement, 40 million dead at least and europe and asia in ruins.

Which makes it funny - "The world is for laughing, or else we must weep"- someguy, somewhere

 

[happy_Alex]

Well, before 1936 there was already a basic TV program. The first real TV show was made by Dénes von Mihály in Berlin 1928, but only in a very little circle. A year later the radio station Witzleben sent first test images. The first real and regularly TV program was made by the TV station Paul Nipkow in Berlin beginning in 1935 (and lasting until 1944). Even before, in 1926 the first electronic TV test image was sent in Japan. The Japanese also tried to build up a TV network but ww2 stopped all plans, like the Germans. In Germany the first TV station could only be seen by a few hundred TVs in and around Berlin.
So my guess is, that even before Hitler was opening the games of 1936 a picture was able to be broadcasted into the space. So this first program should be the first pictures to be seen from Earth. However as the opening of the games was the first big event broadcasted, it will be very impressing to Aliens.

Adler

Sorry Adler!

In 1927 Baird transmitted a signal over 438 miles of telephone line between London and Glasgow. In 1928 Baird's company (Baird Television Development Company / Cinema Television) broadcast the first transatlantic television signal, between London and New York, and the first shore to ship transmission.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television


And the first high definition, all electric system was made from Alexandra Palace in Harringey (just 2 miles from where I live, I often go runnig arround the park)

You can see the transmition tower on the right, though the studios there have not been used since the 1960s, when they were used for the Open University.

Blue plaque on tower:

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[Eran of Arcadia]

It doesn't matter, as one cannot learn anything about Hitler just by watching footage from the 1936 Olymplics. If they somehow extrapolate German from a few phrases and guess everything right about human body language, they will just think he is pompous.

 

[Nylan]

True...so true

 

[Adler17]

Happy Alex, I did not speak about TV signals, which were indeed many years before, but a TV show.



Adler

 

[happy_Alex]

Happy Alex, I did not speak about TV signals, which were indeed many years before, but a TV show.



Adler

You can have a TV show without TV signals?

 

[Nylan]

You can have a TV show without TV signals?

In the same way you can't have TV signals without a TV show

 

[Adler17]

Well, if you define a test picture as TV show, I have to agree. But for me that is not a real show.

Adler

 

[thetrooper]

Did you read it in Contact? I don't know the answer either.

That's exactly what I thought too.