People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. - eviltoast

The static on old CRT TVs with rabbit ears was the cosmic microwave background. No one in the last 25 years has ever seen it.

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    Last time I thought about static I wondered why colour TV didn’t show colour static.

    Turns out the colour signal was on very specific frequencies, and if it wasn’t present, it would assume it was a black and white signal and turn off the colour circuit.