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Life without Technology: Discover the City without Wi-Fi, Cell Phones and Microwaves

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Life without Technology: Discover the City without Wi-Fi, Cell Phones and Microwaves

Nestled in the mountains of West Virginia in the United States lies Green Bank, a peculiar city that defies technological advancement. Since the 1950s, any device that emits energy waves has been banned from operating. This means that residents and visitors cannot use Wi-Fi, microwaves or cell phones, and are forced to resort to more traditional means of communication. This strict policy is due to the presence of the largest fully directional ra…Read Article

Kasper Bisgaard & Mikael Lypinski on "The End of Quiet"

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Kasper Bisgaard & Mikael Lypinski on "The End of Quiet"

The directors discuss needing to go no further than Green Bank, West Virginia to observe another world in a town devoted to space observation. The post Tribeca 2025 Interview: Kasper Bisgaard and Mikael Lypinski on Following the Signals in “The End of Quiet” appeared first on The Moveable Fest.Read Article

'THE END OF QUIET' (Tribeca 2025) Hardwired disconnection. - Reel News Daily

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'THE END OF QUIET' (Tribeca 2025) Hardwired disconnection. - Reel News Daily

THE END OF QUIET Filmmakers Kasper Bisgaard and Mikael Lypinski bring Tribeca 2025 audiences documentary, THE END OF QUIET, a thought-provoking exploration of human connectivity. In an isolated town in West Virginia, the world’s largest radio telescope can pick up the murmurings of signals across the universe. To achieve this, the telescope resides in the Quiet Zone, the only place in the U.S. where Wi-Fi and cell phone signals are not permitted…Read Article

Green Bank Star Quest XX

Star Quest is a 4-day optical and radio amateur astronomy event held June 25-28 2025 ... at the great dark sky site of the Green Bank Observatory. We have interesting and informational lectures and classes all four days of the event and Keynote Speakers each evening. Observing right from your campsite. There are showers and toilets down by the observing field and additional showers and toilets in the bunkhouse. We are planning rocket launches f…Green Bank · Green Bank Read Article

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EXCLUSIVE: An up close look at the Green Bank Telescope

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GREEN BANK, W.Va. (WBOY) — In May, 12 News took a special tour of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the largest fully-steerable radio telescope in the world. At 485 feet tall with a 2.3-acre dish, the NSF Green Bank Telescope weighs 17 million pounds, or about 8,500 tons. But why does the GBT need to be so big in the first place and why is the fact that it's "fully steerable" such a big deal? Diagram of the Green …Green Bank · Green Bank Read Article

Green Bank Fort Site Continues to Yield Clues About Revolutionary War Garrison Life

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In 1990, husband-and-wife archeologists Stephen and Kim McBride, both Greenbrier County, West Virginia natives, first verified the location of the Revolutionary War outpost Fort Warwick, near Green Bank, Pocahontas County, West Virginia. They continue archaeological digs at the site, and offer tours.Archaeology · Green Bank See the Story

NSF’s ongoing technical coordination with satellite constellation operators

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a new coordination agreement with AST SpaceMobile to address the impact of satellite constellations on ground-based astronomy, particularly focusing on radio astronomy facilities like the NSF National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) and the NSF Green Bank Observatory (NSF GBO). The agreement builds on the longstanding partnership […] SourceGreen Bank · Green Bank Read Article

In the ‘Quietest Town in America,' Does True Silence Actually Exist?

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A tech-averse writer rethinks the meaning of connection in the National Radio Quiet Zone, where Wi-Fi and cell service is banned.Green Bank · Green Bank Read Article

China unveils new radio telescope in Antarctica

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China unveiled the Three Gorges Antarctic Eye, a 3.2-meter aperture radio/millimeter-wave telescope, at a scientific research station in Antarctica.Officially launched at the country's Zhongshan Station in Antarctica on April 3, the telescope, co-developed by China Three Gorges University (CTGU) and Shanghai Normal University (SHNU), has further cemented China's advancements in Antarctic astronomy.The Three Gorges Antarctic Eye has officially be…Green Bank · Green Bank See the Story

Where Are All the Aliens? We Review the Search for E.T. » Explorersweb

In the summer of 1950, four men sat down for lunch together at Los Alamos. It was, at the time, the center of American physics, and these men were respected contributors to their field. Among them was Enrico Fermi, a giant in the fields of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics. But the men were relaxing over lunch, and the conversation was not erudite. Nuclear physicist Emil Konopinski brought up a cartoon he had recently seen in The New Yorker, …Green Bank · Green Bank Read Article

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