People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.

Hobbes@startrek.website to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 529 points –

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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Like when the black and white world suddenly got colorized! My grandpap told me about them old days - when the lawn, the sidewalk and the sky were just different shades of gray.

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