Chuck Bryant
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but mainly the Appalachian Mountains.
And within that 13,000 square mile rectangle, you've got that West Virginia, the WVRAZ.
In the center of that, you've got a two mile zone that surrounds Green Bank, West Virginia.
And every time you go into a smaller circle within that rectangle,
it gets more and more restrictive as for what kind of radio noise that you can have.
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.
If you think about Wi-Fi there, you're fired.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, they said, you know, the medical care and access to great health care isn't awesome.
The schools here aren't great for my kids.
And so they relocated the admin headquarters to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
The researchers remain there on site in 88.
And I think that was in 1965 when they built most of this stuff, those big, tall towers in 88.
The 300 foot telescope collapsed.
The 140 foot said, ha ha.
But then it was replaced by the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in 2001, which still stands today.
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.
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