| Subject: Re: The Fermi Paradox and SETI Success |
| From: "Jenny Brien" <jennifer@figuk.plus.com> |
| Date: 18/08/2008, 18:04 |
| Newsgroups: sci.astro.amateur,alt.sci.seti,alt.sci.planetary,talk.origins |
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:06:05 +0100, Tiny Bulcher
<alycidon9@btinternet.com> wrote:
þus cwæð Mike Dworetsky:
Especially at the end of the soap "East Enders". Last week a
documentary about Britain included the National Grid controller who
keeps a TV on in the control room, so he knows when the program ends,
and he is able to bring up the various hydroelectric pumped storage
dynamos on time until the 50-Hz average frequency is stabilized again.
I thought it was the commercial break in /Coronation Street/ that was
the main offender?
Ah, but that's broadcast by ITV, and the program in question was on BBC. Selection bias. ;)