Josh Clark

They've got a gang of goons that enforce this with an iron fist.

That's right.

So we talked about how all of this, the quiet zone itself was established.

Simultaneously, they're working on creating the actual observatory that's going to be in the middle of this quiet zone.

And initially, it was called the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in that town of Green Bank, which is in the center of the West Virginia radio astronomy zone.

That was established in 1956.

And they started building telescopes, one bigger than the other.

They started with the Tatl 85-foot.

Not bad.

And then the 300-foot telescope.

Pretty good.

And the 140-foot telescope, which are very boring names.

But originally, as you might imagine, everybody associated with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory lived in this ultra quiet zone around the observatory.

And they ran into some early problems where the employees were like, we can't live here, sorry.

Right.

Thank you, buddy.

Wow, that was a delightful little line yap.

A lanyap.

We've talked about this before.

A lanyap is just like a little something extra.