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Josh Clark

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

Could you draw up a quick document with the basic business plan?

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

Just one page as a Google doc and send me the link.

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

Thanks.

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

But there was no link.

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

There was no business plan.

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

It's not his fault.

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

I hadn't programmed Kyle to be able to do that yet.

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

My name is Evan Ratliff.

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

Okay, Chuck, so we were talking about how cell phone towers and transmitters, like GPS transmitters, that kind of thing, like commercial-grade stuff, are really the biggest problem for the telescopes.

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

The reason why, I don't think we said, the reason why it's not just interference, right?

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

I saw a side-by-side picture of a radio telescope, I think of a Pulsar,

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

And one of the same thing, but with a lot of interference.

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

And it's just like, yeah, it'd be impossible to pick some of this stuff out.

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

Interference is one problem.

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

Another problem is, is that remember how sensitive those telescopes are.

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

Their amplifiers get blown out really easily.

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

There was a – in that article, they were talking about Chuck Nedei helping fashion an antenna for a smoke alarm.

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

And they were like, if this smoke alarm went off and it sent this message out through the antenna, if we didn't make it right, it would blow the green bank off.

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

telescope, like it would blow the amplifier out.

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