Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for August 26, 2010

And all’s well with the moon… (See, I can’t say ‘world’ because it’s really the moon and…)

And this new neighbor is worried about a few little knicknacks brought in by NASA?

So that’s not REALLY a “death ray” per se maybe it’s the remote for the TV?

The big-screen TV: a weapon of mass distraction.

Yeah, but now we got someplace to watch football and stuff.

Brewster’s easily distracted; for birth control his girl friend slips him a stick of gum.

Doomsday Clock luna-ticks on & on…

I hope they remembered the “Illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator”.

Brewster is in charge. How could anything go wrong?

Would the technically adept among you please tell me how you would get TV signals on the Moon?

go wrong–go wrong–go wrong———-

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Flagging spammers again.

I love Brewster’s A.D…..oooo shiney!

I guess that brings new meaning to the term ‘satellite TV’…

wsmorris, you beat me to it. Satelite works for me…

sandfan: very carefully.

sandfan: TV signals are RF and propagate in all directions from the transmitter. When the moon’s overhead, there’s a line of sight from the transmitter, so the signals will reach the moon. Of course, they’ll be a lot weaker–TV signals on earth only travel about 50-100 miles, tops, so on the moon they’ll be attenuated by a factor of maybe ten million or so (inverse square law and all that). But they will be there, and with a large antenna (think the dishes in the California desert that pick up the signals from space probes out by Saturn) and a big honkin’ amplifier, it’s not only possible, it’s pretty straightforward.

All the better to watch you die….Bwaahahahahah….

Not really, old timer.

I see it now; they use the death ray to force the people of Earth to give them free cable, complete with unscrambled porn channels! It’s brilliant!

Once he turns on that big-screen TV, Brewster will turn into an idiot!

Oh…….that’s right……never mind….