Trump will be flying Qatar One instead of (or as) Air Force One:
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Call your mother, if she’s still around. If she’s not, remember her anyway. I did that here.
I’m pointing to A look at broadcast history happening because it came up in a conversation about archives. Also because that history (especially concerning the decline and not-yet-fall of AM radio) is happening faster than ever.
Make that 89 light years. My answer four years ago to “How far has our first radio broadcast spread into space?“—
The earliest broadcasts were on what we now call longwave (LW) and mediumwave (MW) frequencies. Later, shortwave (SW) was also used. Frequencies on these bands are either absorbed or reflected by layers of the ionosphere. Those are handy for broadcasts over long distances on the planet; but they suck for communications out into space. For that you need frequencies that weren’t used until VHF, UHF, and higher frequency bands became practicable, starting in the 1940s. FM was first demonstrated by its inventor, Edwin W. Armstrong, in June 1936, on a low VHF frequency. So, whatever is left of that transmission, if it escaped into space (not a certainty), would now be two months short of 85 light years away.
Yes, there is one, and we’ll be digging it. The 13th USA International Harp Competition – 2025 will be happening here in Bloomington, Indiana, at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. There are twelve prizes totaling about $90k in value.
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