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Chuck Bryant

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

Oh, geez.

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

Yeah, he's supposed to be not a good guy.

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

Yeah, I'll check it out.

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

Should we take a break?

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

I feel like yes.

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

Okay.

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

All right.

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

We're going to take a break and we're going to talk about what they're doing out there right after this.

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

Yeah, well, we were work pals.

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

Yeah, for sure, especially the low Earth orbit satellites.

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

Not only are you going to get visible light pollution, which is its own problem with all the telescopes, but radio interference is a big problem.

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

So what they're doing there, again, these seem like the greatest bunch of people because they don't come at it, again, with a stick.

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

They're like, hey, let's work together to make sure you can do what you need to do and we can still do what we need to do.

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

So they're working on developing what's called a National Radio Dynamic Zone,

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

which is a collaborative initiative, basically, between the two, well, not two groups, between one group and a lot of other groups that have these satellites, to try and, you know, just talk with each other better and make sure that they can all, like I said, get their jobs done.

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

They don't have a permanent home yet, but they're working on it.

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

Yeah, for sure.

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

All right.

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

So if you were thinking, guys, when are you going to talk about aliens?

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

Now's the time because we talked about kind of the things they're doing there.