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People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. (startrek.website)
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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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[โ€“] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I had three different ones growing up. The first 2 were black and white and the last one was color. All found on the side of the road.

[โ€“] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 15 hours ago

I find one every once in a while, on the side oft the road aswell, unfortunately some idiot usually sprayed graffiti on it for some dumbass Instagram post, or I have no room at my place ATM.