An interesting fact that disappointingly I never get to use in normal conversation, is that if you put your phone in airplane mode and then placed it on Jupiter, it would be the brightest radio source in the Green Bank Telescope's field of view.
(photo by NRAO/AUI/NSF)

@MasterNinjaTS that’s crazy! So you compared rf strength of iphones to pulsars? So glad master ninja is here to enlighten us!;)

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@carlysagan I can't take credit here. This fact comes from the observatory.

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