Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [May 13, 2022]
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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How to Pick Out Frequency in Radio
You can pick out the pieces of radio energy that are sort of moving electrons in a wire just by using software in your computer. You get to a certain frequency, there'll be somebody talking in language X and then you get to another frequency, it's some weird music. There's all kinds of weird stuff out there, there's all kind of radio navigation beacons that are making beeping sounds. And also places where there was clearly radio signal, but it was sounded completely random. That's probably data being transmitted or encoded in certain ways and so on.
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