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Washington: Can you even imagine that in America, one of the leading countries of the world, there is even a single city where mobile and internet services have not reached till date. The people here are still living their lives in the hundreds of years old way. Even GPS doesn’t work here. To travel anywhere here, you will either have to ask someone for directions or reach there by reading the written signs. Now you must be wondering how this can happen, so let us tell you the whole matter.
In fact, this has been done deliberately to make this American city radiation free. It is called the Green Bank of West Virginia, where there is no noise, air or water pollution. Although there are facilities of school and library here. The world’s largest telescope is also located in this city.
This city was built in 1958
This city is green and very peaceful. It was established in 1958. It falls in America’s National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ). The area of this city is up to 33 thousand square kilometers. The purpose of National Radio Quiet Zone was to make radio frequencies free. No facilities like WiFi, Internet, mobile, microwave are provided here. Because all these are devices that generate electromagnetic waves. That’s why all these have been banned here.
Research facility for scientists
Research facilities for scientists are available in this city. The Green Bank Telescope (GBT) located here detects even the weakest radio waves coming from space. There is a ban on any kind of wave generating equipment here. So that there is no hindrance in scientific research. It is also called Observatory area. Such systems are necessary to detect important events occurring in space, explore the mysteries of the universe and detect gravitational waves.
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