Deep Space TV signal recovery

[montypython]

I was reading this [umm, interesting article] and was wondering if it were plausible to have a signal receiver set up in deep space to pick up such signals for recording?

[Drooling Iguana]

How would you get it out there ahead of the signals? You do realize that radio signals travel at the speed of light, right?

[Kuroneko]

Every day in our lab is like traveling back in time. And speaking of which we have just started the digital recovery of signals that contain lost Doctor Who episodes.

This is the cruelest part of the article.

[Simon_Jester]

How is this cruel? Recovering lost Doctor Who episodes would be great. Tf the article is true, then this is awesome and good.

Do you mean to say that the article is not true?

[Drooling Iguana]

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[Simon_Jester]

Crap. Sorry, guys.

OK, yeah, that was cruel, and I should have spotted it.

I thought my brain had recovered from my bout of tax calculations and no sleep over the weekend, but apparently I'm wrong.

[montypython]

How would you get it out there ahead of the signals? You do realize that radio signals travel at the speed of light, right?

I do understand that, it was just a question of whether it could be done if something like a wormhole or something similar was available to place a receiver ahead of the signal movement?

Crap. Sorry, guys.

OK, yeah, that was cruel, and I should have spotted it.

I thought my brain had recovered from my bout of tax calculations and no sleep over the weekend, but apparently I'm wrong.

Don't feel too bad, I had to read the article twice before I realized the nasty joke.

[Molyneux]

How would you get it out there ahead of the signals? You do realize that radio signals travel at the speed of light, right?

I do understand that, it was just a question of whether it could be done if something like a wormhole or something similar was available to place a receiver ahead of the signal movement?

Crap. Sorry, guys.

OK, yeah, that was cruel, and I should have spotted it.

I thought my brain had recovered from my bout of tax calculations and no sleep over the weekend, but apparently I'm wrong.

Don't feel too bad, I had to read the article twice before I realized the nasty joke.

If you can access a wormhole, then don't you already have access to time travel?

[montypython]

How would you get it out there ahead of the signals? You do realize that radio signals travel at the speed of light, right?

I do understand that, it was just a question of whether it could be done if something like a wormhole or something similar was available to place a receiver ahead of the signal movement?

Crap. Sorry, guys.

OK, yeah, that was cruel, and I should have spotted it.

I thought my brain had recovered from my bout of tax calculations and no sleep over the weekend, but apparently I'm wrong.

Don't feel too bad, I had to read the article twice before I realized the nasty joke.

If you can access a wormhole, then don't you already have access to time travel?

Good point, that does make things a bit redundant...

[Themightytom]

Ironic that it would require Whovian technology to recover episodes of Dr Who.

[Gil Hamilton]

Crap. Sorry, guys.

OK, yeah, that was cruel, and I should have spotted it.

I thought my brain had recovered from my bout of tax calculations and no sleep over the weekend, but apparently I'm wrong.

I realized it was a joke when (A) it was basically the beginning to the book Contact and (B) that NASA would attempt to use the Hubble (while the mother of all optical telescopes, still an optical telescope) to try to detect the anomoly that they thought was a small, local solid body.

The Doctor Who episodes were the cherry on top.

Excellent article!