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Chuck Bryant

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

but mainly the Appalachian Mountains.

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

And within that 13,000 square mile rectangle, you've got that West Virginia, the WVRAZ.

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

In the center of that, you've got a two mile zone that surrounds Green Bank, West Virginia.

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

And every time you go into a smaller circle within that rectangle,

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

it gets more and more restrictive as for what kind of radio noise that you can have.

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

Because in the middle of that zone, you've got the Green Bank Observatory, and they have even more restrictions right there in the center.

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

If you think about Wi-Fi there, you're fired.

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

Yeah, exactly.

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

Yeah.

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

Yeah.

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

I mean, they said, you know, the medical care and access to great health care isn't awesome.

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

The schools here aren't great for my kids.

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

And so they relocated the admin headquarters to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

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

The researchers remain there on site in 88.

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

And I think that was in 1965 when they built most of this stuff, those big, tall towers in 88.

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

The 300 foot telescope collapsed.

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

The 140 foot said, ha ha.

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

But then it was replaced by the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in 2001, which still stands today.

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

And not only stands, but it's like it is the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world with, get this, a 2.3-acre dish and almost 500 feet, 485 feet, which is 2,116 Big Macs.

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

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