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Josh Clark

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

Okay, so there's also been a bunch of great scientific discoveries there, as you can imagine.

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

$20 million in 1989.

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

Do you know how much she sold the town for?

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

I think that's great, Chuck.

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

Plus, the AI overview just shrugged.

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

Put a shrug emoji up.

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

And we're talking radio astronomy.

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

So there's stuff like interstellar molecules.

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

Some of the first ones were discovered.

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

I think half of the interstellar molecules we know about were discovered in the 60s at Green Bank.

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

Like pictures of pulsars.

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

We understand the universe a lot more thanks to it.

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

But they're also really arcane objects.

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

I guess, discoveries that seem like they were just like total, like they would only interest like two people.

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

For example, it was the first detection of Zeeman splitting.

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

Zeeman splitting is where spectral lines, you know, those black bands like on the spectrum that just kind of pop up?

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

Those are spectral lines.

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

They split in the presence of a magnetic field.

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

That was discovered at Green Bank Observatory.

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