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Chuck Bryant

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Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

Well, I just meant a sort of a regular interval, like a something watt, like a regi watt.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

No, I'm going to let you hear it in QA when you listen to it.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

So great.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

I have a future humiliation ahead of me.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

No, no, no, no.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

It was very quick and it was a pretty lame setup by me because it was all just for that dumb joke.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

So you have an Easter egg to look forward to.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

I can't wait to hear it.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

Something that you've said, though, a few times that we want to, again, just sort of hammer home.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

You've said like a lot of noise and you might hear like silence and things like that.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

Again, it has nothing to do with sound.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

We're just talking about radio waves, which are, you know, they cast a kind of light, like a radio light, but it's not something that the human eye can see.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

So again, not actual sound is what we're talking about.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

Yeah, I mean, I can't imagine if they were tasked with this today, it'd probably be nearly impossible.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

They'd have to use eminent domain just to kick people out.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

But 1954, like you said, it was a little bit easier.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

So for a couple of years, they got together over coffee about where they could put this thing.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

It needed minimal radio noise, obviously, like we talked about, probably a pretty limited population.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

By the way, thanks for Anna for this one.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

She did a great job on this.