ET watching UK TV
As we soon will pull the plug on analogue television - leaving watching aliens without Coronation Street - here's who has been watching what.
This is inspired by a US-centric diagram of what ET is currently viewing from Abstruse Goose.
I decided to replicate the idea using British telly. At least the little green men living near HD 217107 have another 55 or so years until they witness The X Factor.
Below is the American original. Click on them for a better view.
Weird Science Factoid: Europe is the only continent without a desert. We have plenty of wastelands though...
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
