Chuck Bryant

They're going to fold a map up and send us a correction.

Yeah, they'll be like, Josh was way off.

Well, you know where they might fold a map up is in the National Radio Quiet Zone because they still use those things.

That's right.

And to be clear, when you say radio transmissions, you're not talking about Casey Kasem's American Top 40.

Because we don't have a time machine and we're not going to exhume Casey Kasem.

I've stumbled upon those, and it is a nice time capsule for sure.

But you're talking about radio waves, and we're going to explain kind of about what radio astronomy is and all that.

In fact, we can go ahead and do that right now.

Because in 1932, there was an engineer at Bell Labs named Carl Jansky who noticed some static interfering with some communications going across the pond, as they say.

got together with an astronomer over coffee, and they said, you know what?

I don't think this is interference coming from here on Earth.

I think it's coming from out in the Milky Way galaxy.

And this was a big deal in 1932.

They were like, there are literal celestial bodies emitting radio waves out there, and we need to start studying these and measuring these, and we're going to call it radio astronomy.

Is it named after Carl?

You mentioned the less than a watt.

Do they have names?

I know there's like megawatts and kilowatts and all that stuff, gigawatts.

Do they have names for things less than a watt?