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.

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    5 hours ago

    “Thermal Noise” is a phenomenon where everything makes EM noise, just from thermal energy.

    If you were to put such a TV in a faraday cage, with an RF termination, you would see something similar. Because noise is inherently part of the circuitry and amplifiers.