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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

No digital is all or nothing. What you are describing is some digital packets making it through and the algothrim is designed to accept some packet loss and has error correction. Its more complicated then i make it out, but thats the jist of it.

It is nothing like analog thats being drowned out by background radiation.