Radio Ruminations

(phil's old radios)

Today I found this little blog called

Phil's Old Radios,

and I must confess, I was quite smitten by it, and

it's not simply because the guy who runs it

is named Phil.

He has a gallery of radios he has restored,

and he gives plenty of information

on how to restore your own.

I wanted to put Phil on my favorite blog list,

and I will, but I thought I'd also call attention to him

with this modest little entry today.

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You see,

I have a little radio problem.

I love radios.

Not only do I think they are one of the most efficient ways

to disseminate information, I also have

utopian visions about them.

I'm not the only one -- when radio first appeared,

plenty of people felt it would be the most

democratic of mediums,

and it would unite the world.  

Well, that task would be left for radio's

younger cousin, the internet.

But I also have

great respect for the way their waves

embrace the earth, in something

like a woven electronic basket.

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We tend to be afraid of too much 

radio-activity, but

I tend to think radio waves are our friends;

and we just don't understand how fully they can be --

So many of our recent technologies, in fact, 

have involved working with some form of 

radio wave, taming it for our

own selfish ends.

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I read somewhere just yesterday

that there is a project afoot to protect the earth

from asteroids.  There's this huge telescope looking for them.

bunsenburner (story here about the telescope)

My question is:

what would we do if we actually found an asteroid hurtling towards us?

Is there some way that the earth can duck?

My simplistic theory is:

use the radio waves.  We can use microwaves to cook,

xrays to see into our bodies,

is there any frequency at which we can create

some kind of shield?

Just thinkin'

This is a pretty modest entry,

so pardon me.

My brain is just not functioning

as fluently as I would like it to.

Too much sun will do that to me.

So let me wish you a happy day,

and move on my way --

(greeninnovation)

. . . and another radio thought:

(just found this on Facebook,
at the FB page "Global Awakening"