Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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The first complete broadcast of a professional ice hockey game was on March 14, 1923. The game featured the Regina Capitals and the Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Canada Hockey League. The signal from that game has traveled through space more than 100 light-years. It's conceivable that that broadcast or later far more powerful broadcasts have been received by alien civilizations, or will be received sometime in the future. I like to hope that aliens would react to human transmissions not with, "We should invade that planet and test out our new splort bombs!" but rather with, "That ice hockey thing they do... we really gotta try that!"

Neo-opsis Science fiction. neo-opsis.ca

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