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I can’t believe it. First they take Pluto from us, next they’re going to tell me the static on my tv set isn’t the remnants of the Big Bang, but just hot dust?
by theoreticalmal 3y ago
I can’t believe it. First they take Pluto from us, next they’re going to tell me the static on my tv set isn’t the remnants of the Big Bang, but just hot dust? My childhood is crumbling!
- taneq 3y agoThe hot dust is also remnants of the Big Bang, if that helps. Of course, so are we. :)
- orlp 3y agoYour comment made me realize how some younger people have no idea of, or at least no first-hand experience of static on TV and radio since it is all digital nowadays.
- LilBytes 3y agoMy great grandparents had a black and white TV when I was a toddler, and I'm 36! The amount of change millennials and the generations before and after us have seen is boggling. I was out in country Victoria, Australia a few months back and the internet was TERRIBLE. I'm talking, JPG's loading line by line terrible. And this was on 'alleged' 4G. I felt pretty nostalgic for all of 2-3 minutes before I started pulling my hair out. I feel nostalgic about it again now.
- denton-scratch 3y agoSee also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Dot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Dot
- brabel 3y agoI have a super modern flatscreen. Sometimes, when it can't connect to the laptop it shows what I believe is "simulated" static noise! I love that :D
- ghostDancer 3y ago"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
- sebzim4500 3y agoThe static on your TV set is <1% CMB, mostly it is interference from other man-made sources and IIRC there is some coming from the sun.