Reality Check by Dave Whamond for June 27, 2021

“…and please hold for a brief survey after the call.”

This call may be recorded for training purposes.

We’ve been trying to get a hold of you regarding your car’s extended warranty.

They had you at “hello”.

A distant galaxy could not be responding to one of their messages.

Our nearest galaxy (the Andromeda Galaxy) is about 2.5 million light-years away. They wouldn’t even receive a message from Earth for another 2.5 million years and then it would take another 2.5 million years for a message to get back to us.

Only “someone” (relatively) very close to us could have received and have responded to messages from here. There is a time day in receiving and responding back – dependent on how far (how many light-years) away they are.

The hold music is the worst.

I expect they will have proofread it, and corrected any spelling or grammatical errors.

Hello. It is nice to meat you. Oops. We meant meet you. Yes, it is nice to meet you. Hehehehe.

“TO SERVE MAN” was a cookbook!

If you want to press one, press one now. If you would like to press two, hang up and try again.

The Berlin Olympics of 1936 were broadcast on television. Those broadcast waste are out there. Anybody within an 85 light-year radius could have seen them.

D R I N K M O R E O V A L T I N E

It’s just a window shade tugging on a coke bottle that’s hitting the inetergalactic communication device left behind in the Arecibo rubble … (Hey! … infinite # of monkeys with an infinite # of typewriters & all that) …!

About 15 minutes ago I got a phone call that, cut itself off, immediately followed by a text, that I saw was from my doctors office, followed by another cut off call that did the same, (On a Sunday morning, mind you). I called back, Twice, heard “Dr,D____’s answering service” then music.At that point, just went back to read the text. Which was dated JANUARY 20…..NOW I realize it’s part of an interplanetary plot.

I don’t think we are actually sending any deliberate messages. Too expensive to send everywhere and we don’t know where to point a directed beam. It’s far, far cheaper to just listen. The problem is that any civilization as “advanced” as our own will have also figured out it is far, far cheaper to just listen. So there we are – all listening for the Big Info Pie in the Sky.

We’ve been trying to contact you about your car’s extended warranty.

They say; “Send more Chuck Berry.”

If it’s Andromeda, the wait for a response is a long one, about 2.54 million years.

The guy with male pattern baldness will create a paper trail to document the existence of aliens.

Hum a couple of bars of their alien music. I might like it too.

Aliens are running the VA????????????? :)