Starting somewhere around '81 or so.

Rest in peace.

radio station my mother liked. I was only 6 years old in 1970 and I loved the hits of that era. If my mom didn't have to work we would listen together. But when she worked, I still listened in my room. I listened until the first incarnation of AT40 ended and Casey moved on and I lost track of him in the transition between AT40 and Casey's Top 40.

I remember Carly Simon's You're So Vain was #1 the first time I heard the program.

I listened to him when he was a local DJ in the San Francisco bay area at KEWB. And yes, I did listen to him on a transistor radio. Actually, I was gobsmacked to discover a radio station dedicated exclusively to rock 'n' roll, years before he even invented that top 40 stuff.

Casey Kasem, you were obnoxious back then, but as Martha Stewart would say, "It's a good thing". RIP.

they will know there is no intelligent life on Earth.

Once an hour of Rush Limbaugh reaches another civilization, Earth will be torched immediately

This was way before the internet obviously and phone calls were extremely expensive, and there weren't a lot of US programs on the TV at the time, so I felt a lot more 'cut off' from the US than a person would nowadays, for sure.

Anyways, soon after arriving, I discovered AT40 was on a radio station there, every Sunday IIRC, and I began tuning in, and it made me just a little less homesick. It felt almost like my homeland was reaching out to me.

IIRC the #1 song at the time was 'Knock on Wood' ... or maybe it was 'Bad Girls' or 'Reunited' or 'Babe' or 'Le Freak' or 'My Sharona' or 'Da Ya Think I'm Sexy' or 'I Will Survive' or 'Sultans of Swing' or the 'The Logical Song' ... hell I don't remember the order but I know those were all songs that were at (or nearly at) the top of the Countdown during that era. I have great memories of being out in the South China Sea with my parents on our boat, with my little portable boombox, laying on the bow of the boat, cranking up America's Top 40.

Godspeed, and thanks for the Memories, Casey!

R.I.P. Casey. Gone to the great studio in the sky.....

RIP

It basically states that once a species has evolved to a certain level of intelligence and technology, they are inevitably short lived. In other words, they find a way to kill themselves off somehow or other. ie. pollution, global climate destabilization from pollution, developing biological weapons of war that get out of control, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Explaining_the_paradox_hypothetically
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

Unless they're tuning in on their frequent UFO visits to Alabama swamps.

http://zidbits.com/2011/07/how-far-have-radio-signals-traveled-from-earth/

At which point they may decide to destroy Earth, for the sake of galactic sanity.