
Putting Down Roots | Deleted Scene
Clip: Season 10 Episode 1004 | 4m 53sVideo has Closed Captions
Sue reflects on how her quality of life has improved in Green Bank.
Sue reflects on how her quality of life has improved in Green Bank and discusses buying a piece of land for her and her husband.
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Putting Down Roots | Deleted Scene
Clip: Season 10 Episode 1004 | 4m 53sVideo has Closed Captions
Sue reflects on how her quality of life has improved in Green Bank and discusses buying a piece of land for her and her husband.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- On the day that John goes back to New York, it's hard for me.
I wanna put down roots.
I don't want to just stay in a rental trailer anymore.
I want to, you know, build my own home.
I'm looking at land and very serious about a piece of land that we might purchase.
I never thought I would live in West Virginia.
Sometimes I pull over and I just talk to the cows.
I mean I really, I look, look at these cows?
What are they doing?
I'm like, hi cows.
I never thought I would be in the Appalachian Mountains and I am and I'll tell you, it's the Gods honest truth, if I had an opportunity to move back and all the cell towers came down, I wouldn't, I'd be here.
I can't tell you it's night and day how I feel here compared to how I felt in New York.
Hi, how are you?
I can live here.
I am living.
I lost a decade of my life to EHS.
I don't wanna miss another minute.
I like to use this computer in the back because it's not connected to the other ones and this is a little bit older system and the newer one is a problem for me.
Just waiting for it to start.
It's been eight years since I've really been able to use a computer and I would try periodically to go into the public library, but with 12, 15 computers and also the lighting, they're very accommodating here and they turn the lights off for me, which is really nice.
You know, I can be here in this library and I can spend a good, you know, 15, 20 minutes checking my email.
Oh wow, I haven't been on in three days and I got a ton things.
I'm able to do some activism, signing petitions and sending things to your senators and congressmen and sharing information.
I printed out a copy of AT&T coverage, cell phone coverage in the United States.
Now that's only one of the four major carriers.
This is Green Bank.
Any of the orange and the red are cell phones around here.
We're holding back the floodgates, right?
And that's all AT&T cell coverage completely covers everywhere but that dot, except for some definite areas in maybe Montana or Idaho or you know, Nevada.
We're talking about the telescope right there.
I anticipate spending the rest of my life here.
Absolutely, as long as we can keep this.
- Bingo, here's our first hit.
- When I got here I was told that there was no wifi here, but there was wifi already here.
Not everyone had it.
It's really in the last couple of years that it's just automatically hooked up.
- What we're seeing here on the computer screen are wifi hotspots that are in people's homes and... All these internet signals that are close to the observatory are causing interference and we're just living with this right now.
There was a plan to try to get 'em all shut down, but it was a problem that just kind of exploded on us.
One person had once said screw you NRAO, so they knew we were listening.
- I don't think the person from the telescope goes around and tells anybody to turn it off at this point anymore.
I mean how can you keep it out now when they make, you know, wireless everything.
- At the rate things are going, I'm not sure if we'll be a quiet environment for 10, 15 years.
Finding Relief in West Virginia | Deleted Scene
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Clip: S10 Ep1004 | 5m 56s | Sue is wracked with mystery symptoms. She soon finds the cause: electrohypersensitivity. (5m 56s)
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Clip: S10 Ep1004 | 2m 16s | Sue and her husband are reunited as he moves to live with her in Green Bank permanently. (2m 16s)
The Next Generation of Citizen Science
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Clip: S10 Ep1004 | 2m 40s | Ellie White visits an elementary school to lead students in an astronomy project. (2m 40s)
A Sight for Sore Eyes | Deleted Scene
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Clip: S10 Ep1004 | 3m 51s | Sue and her husband reunite and attend a dinner with an electrohypersensitivity group. (3m 51s)
Small Town Universe | Official Trailer
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Preview: S10 Ep1004 | 30s | In a quiet West Virginia town, a radio telescope searches for signs of life beyond Earth. (30s)
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Clip: S10 Ep1004 | 3m | When the NSF proposes a funding cut to an Observatory, residents passionately defend the project. (3m)
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