Naut's Tidbits & Snippets: From Poop to Pop...

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Friday, April 27, 2007

From Poop to Pop...

No, not that kind of pop, a much bigger one. ‘In 1965 astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson scrubbed their Bell Labs radio antenna to rid it of pigeon droppings, which they suspected were causing their instrument’s annoying steady hiss. That noise turned out to be the microwave echo of the Big... Sign in to see full entry.

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