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Chuck Bryant

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

What is it?

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

I don't even know.

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

Is it that slow?

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

Mega something?

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

Gigahertz.

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

Right.

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

You can't do astronomy on it.

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 got nothing else.

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

This sort of ties in a little bit.

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

It's about the AM radio episode because we mentioned it was an important alert system still.

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

And this happened to Hannah from Texas in 2016 when Hannah lived in Denham Springs, Louisiana.

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

She was hit by a terrible flood that knocked out cell phone communications.

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

So it was like Green Bank for a short time.

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

Guys, we still had enough internet to receive information but couldn't send anything.

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

So we had gotten word that we could tune in to a specific AM radio station each evening between a certain time to hear families who were calling and asking if their loved ones were okay.

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

My partner at the time and I would go out to my car, turn on the radio and listen.

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

And every evening we got updates on who was looking for who, who was on the way to help us or not, and who had been marked as safe.

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

Sure enough, a couple of days in, we heard my mom calling in to try and confirm that her baby girl, me, was okay.

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

Wow.