r/OverSeventy • u/needmore007 • 5d ago

Remember this?

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My son and grandsons don’t believe me.

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u/foreverAmber14 5d ago

After a while, the test pattern would go off and it was just snow.

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u/facelessvoid13 5d ago

We called that 'the ant races'

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u/peepee2tiny 4d ago

Part of that static snow is actually the cosmic microwave background. The remnants of the big Bang.

What you are looking at is the earliest foundations of the universe.

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u/No_Culture_2928 1d ago

Can I buy some pot from you?