Oh, we get some science lessons today. However if that specific star is really 137 light years away and the first commercial radio broadcast occurred in 1900, one hundred and twenty years ago, that star couldn’t have heard about Earthlings for yet another 17 years, the time when the first radio broadcast would reach it. And for the star to say that message back to us, it wouldn’t arrive on Earth for another 137 years. So this Ziggy cartoon is taking place in the year 2174.
Oh, we get some science lessons today. However if that specific star is really 137 light years away and the first commercial radio broadcast occurred in 1900, one hundred and twenty years ago, that star couldn’t have heard about Earthlings for yet another 17 years, the time when the first radio broadcast would reach it. And for the star to say that message back to us, it wouldn’t arrive on Earth for another 137 years. So this Ziggy cartoon is taking place in the year 2174.