RE: Answer may be in the radio telescope's name

Posted by Sondek (A) on August 25, 2016 at 11:16:06

In Reply to: Answer may be in the radio telescope's name posted by headphonejack on August 25, 2016 at 11:03:13:

Damn! He sure has a LOT of stuff named after him. Although I suspect he's not the reason for the NRQZ being there. According to the Wiki on NRQZ it was established in 1958 to protect the scopes at Green Bank and Sugar Grove. That predates his tenure in the Senate by quite a while.

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Topic - National Radio Quiet Zone - Awe-d-o-file 21:41:04 08/23/16 (15)

RE: National Radio Quiet Zone - fantja 11:54:43 08/24/16 (0)

RE: National Radio Quiet Zone - steve.ott@kctcs.edu 08:22:49 08/24/16 (1)

RE: National Radio Quiet Zone - Awe-d-o-file 08:52:48 08/24/16 (0)

Very Cool! - MannyE 06:50:19 08/24/16 (1)

RE: Very Cool! - Awe-d-o-file 08:23:03 08/24/16 (0)

RE: National Radio Quiet Zone - Sondek 06:41:29 08/24/16 (9)

Answer may be in the radio telescope's name - headphonejack 11:03:13 08/25/16 (1)

RE: Answer may be in the radio telescope's name - Sondek 11:16:06 08/25/16 (0)

"in the vast nothingness of the US West?" They did. In New Mexico, near where I went to college - Raiderman 09:11:58 08/24/16 (5)

Did you to to NMT? - David S. 07:53:47 08/25/16 (4)

Yeah, I went to NMIMT, (I was majoring in the second "M" of that title!) ;-) - Raiderman 09:18:56 08/25/16 (3)

Physics with electronics option for me - David S. 12:35:59 08/25/16 (2)

And I abandoned my mining engineering studies quickly after I left NMIMT. - Raiderman 14:48:22 08/25/16 (1)

Didn't do "M" mountain either. Don't particularly regret that one. nt - David S. 16:02:06 08/25/16 (0)

RE: National Radio Quiet Zone - Awe-d-o-file 08:09:00 08/24/16 (0)

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