New Delhi: How about a lifestyle from the 1980s with no cellphone towers or WiFi? Unimaginable. But, a town in West Virginia has been doing pretty well without the ‘man-made interference’ to protect the world’s largest steerable radio telescope.
Green Bank, a quiet town that falls under the US National Radio Quiet Zone, a 13,000 square mile area that was established in 1958, has banned both cellphones and WiFi so that its telescope could study the universe and find signs of extraterrestrial life.
Residents of Green Bank are made to sign a rental agreement that forbids them to own microwave ovens, WiFi, or cordless telephones. Surprisingly, this place has found a liking amongst people who believe that they suffer from a condition known as electromagnetic hypersensitivity.
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