Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

在国家级无线电静默区进行科学研究

Stuff You Should Know

2026-01-13

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West Virginia is home to sensitive radio telescopes that could easily pick up your cell phone’s signal on Mars. And the cell reception on Mars is about as good as it is in the NRQZ, since cell towers are banned in the interest of furthering astronomy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • This is an iHeart podcast.

  • Guaranteed human.

  • Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeart Radio.

  • Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

  • I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here, too.

  • And we're really quiet.

  • You're on Stuff You Should Know because we're doing an episode on the National Radio Quiet Zone.

  • We're not a radio show, we're a podcast, but we feel in solidarity that we should be quiet too.

  • That's right.

  • And we're not talking about Palm Springs with their oppressive band on outdoor music.

  • Oh, I hadn't heard about that.

  • Yeah, you can't play music outside like by your pool.

  • Huh, at all?

  • Supposedly at all.

  • Well, I guess it probably just depends on your neighbor.

  • I think they're pretty strict about it.

  • I mean, I've never been to Palm Springs and stayed there.

  • We should ask our friend who lives there.

  • Yeah,

  • cuz maybe full-time residents have a little more leeway But you know they do it