NPR: Lucy’ Laugh Enlivens the Solar System

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NPR: Krulwich on Science: Lucy’s Laugh Enlivens the Solar System

In 1951, when CBS first broadcast the I Love Lucy show, Ricky, Lucy, Fred and Ethel became electromagnetic signals traveling at nearly the speed of light to receivers all over America, where they got bounced on to our living rooms and into our lives.

But not all those signals stayed on Earth.

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