more thread creep...several years ago the local CBC station switched from an AM to an FM frequency. Before they officially started broadcasting on the new 91.5 wavelength, they had to field-test and fine-tune the signal, for about a week. At least that's why I presume that one Nanci Griffith recording was on non-stop rotation at 91.5 FM, 24 hours a day, for about six days. (They could have done a lot worse.) I gotta admit i listened to it quite a lot...but enough was enough!

Or I don't know, maybe it was a short-lived all-music Adult Contemporary station with an unusually narrow format...

So anyway, there's now a band of radio waves surrounding our solar system, about eight light years out, which when decoded consist of Nanci G. singing about riding in a car with a guy named Seamus...over 'n'over

I'm not sure if this in an argument for including her music in a time capsule, or for leaving it out. The alien explorers may be expecting to hear more of her. Perhaps it would be best to include any recording except that one.

There are strange things done...

Bill