Amidst the hyper-connected America is a rural village where it is easier to hear a cow moo than a cell phone ring. That's because Green Bank is home to the world's most sensitive radio telescope, a device that catches the birth and death of stars and signals so faint they are mere whispers from space. And, since the electronics of mobile phones and WiFi grids would mess with that delicate task, here technology that's taken for granted in much of the ...Friday 14 November 2014
A Cell Phone-Free US Village is Loving Its Freedom
Amidst the hyper-connected America is a rural village where it is easier to hear a cow moo than a cell phone ring. That's because Green Bank is home to the world's most sensitive radio telescope, a device that catches the birth and death of stars and signals so faint they are mere whispers from space. And, since the electronics of mobile phones and WiFi grids would mess with that delicate task, here technology that's taken for granted in much of the ...
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