Originally posted by beatspete
Though havent we already established that they must communicate through subspace? I'm not sure its written anywhere, but it seems rediculous not to. Would Sol or the rest of the GTVA know how to pick up each others transmissions? Sure, a radio telescope, but what frequency do you use? Unless there's one already established as the frequency, which makes us wonder why the GTVA didnt jsut radio earth.
Yeah, that was a thread from a good number of months - maybe even a year or so ago. Basically, the canon is that:
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- As of FS2, the GTVA has not succeeded in contacting Sol - fact.
- Frequency issues would not be any sort of problem whatsoever - it doesn't take all that much to monitor all the possible frequencies (relative to the resources the GTVA and Sol have at their disposal). Therefore, since we can assume with 100% certainty that they did try to contact each other using non-subspace methods, we must conclude that there is some sort of interference preventing non-subspace communications from successfully reaching from Sol to Alpha Centauri or vice versa.
However, since ~33 (?) years have passed since contact was lost with Sol, we can assume that non-subspace contact with Sol is impossible from _any_ system within a ~16.5 (33 / 2 = 16.5, the time it would take for a message to be recieved, replied to and for the reply to be recieved) lightyear radius, since surely all alternatives would have been tried by the GTVA.
Did I miss anything?
Originally posted by Thor
No it isn't. TLC and discovery channels do it all the time.
Originally posted by Killfrenzy
So do most movies these days - and FreeSpace itself!
Forgive me for not including the SARCASM TAG in my post, but I thought that the very act of us discussing a video file created by 20th century artists using 20th century computers would have been enough to make clear my sarcasm. Evidently not.
Heck, I even included that wink smiley for good measure! :wink:
