Josh Clark

And I've seen it compared to a snowflake hitting the ground carries a lot more energy than that.

So that's how faint some of these radio signals are.

And that's how sensitive these enormous radio telescopes are, which is why the idea of having a quiet zone around a telescope is so vital, because there's so much noise in modern life.

It's just gotten worse and worse and worse.

You can find radio interference in everything from bulldozers,

to power lines, Wi-Fi routers, Christmas lights, spark plugs in cars produce a lot of radio interference.

It's everywhere, which means then that if you want to create a quiet zone, you have to somehow regulate all this stuff to kind of keep it away from the radio telescopes, which has proven difficult over the years for the National Radio Quiet Zone.

A micro Jansky is a Jansky is like point 26 zeros of one single watt.

Oh, I'm sure there's like a milliwatt.

I know there is.

I've heard that word before.

I know I was at a mixer of some sort and someone used that word.

Okay, I got you.

You missed my joke.

Oh, I need to hear it.

No, nor actual visible light, radio light, right?

So like what I was saying, it's like radio light pollution is absolutely everywhere.

And yet they're trying to keep it as quiet as possible in the National Radio Quiet Zone.

It used to be a lot easier when they started this whole thing.

You said Carl Jansky made that massive monumental discovery in 1932.