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Aliens are missing their shows because of digital transition
by Danny Gallagher, posted Jun 26th 2009 5:41PM
The elderly, hermits and people too cheap to get cable weren't the only victims of the recent transition to the digital airwaves. Apparently, the lack of an analog signal means that somewhere out there, an alien race that mankind has yet to discover will not know the winner of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.
An astronomer from the SETI Institute has speculated that undiscovered alien races or other forms of intelligent life in the universe won't be able to watch Earth's television because of the switchover.
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