Josh Clark

They're saying that this is an area where radio emissions of any kind are heavily regulated, frowned upon you might even say, and the whole reason they're doing this is to protect

The delicate telescopes, radio telescopes used in radio astronomy at a specific place called Green Bank, West Virginia.

They've established a whole zone around it that's meant to block out or keep out radio transmissions so that the astronomers can go about their business happily.

Right.

They still play those like old ones on some radio stations on Saturday or Sunday.

It's a great way to pass some time if you're driving.

Yeah.

All of a sudden, we didn't just have visible telescopes anymore.

We had radio telescopes, which are very similar.

I mean, they both are just measuring different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

That's basically it.

But the really amazing thing about what some of these radio telescopes can do, just to give you an idea of how sensitive they are, they measure...

The incoming radio waves that are so weak, they measure them in micro Jansky's, which is a micro Jansky point.

It is named.

I hope so, because that would be one heck of a coincidence.

Yeah.

It's 0.32 zeros.

Wow.

This is watts, by the way.

So the electrical energy is so weak, it's 0.32 zeros of a single watt, right?