From the SETI Institute's radio sweeps of the sky, to the discovery of liquid water on neighboring worlds, to the thousands of exoplanets detected over the past two decades, there have been major gains in chasing one of the ultimate cosmic mysteries whether or not we are alone in the universe.
Radar, or radio waves, sweep the sky every 12 seconds transmitting images of approaching aircraft that can then be viewed by controllers onscreen in a series of centers spanning the nation.
The 70's were also when the CB radio craze swept the nation, when hokey anthems like C. W. McCall's "Convoy" -- and the even hokier movies and television shows that followed -- had suburbanites in station wagons spouting trucker lingo like "breaker, breaker" and "10-4, good buddy".
He would bring his pipe, a bag of a tobacco, and a transistor radio, and smoke, sweep, mop, wax, and listen to baseball.
And their second single from it, allegedly written on the Edge's very own piano, is being set up to sweep Radio 2's listeners off their feet.
The spinning neutron star also shines out a beam of radio waves that sweeps the sky just as the light beam from a lighthouse sweeps the sea.
Demme was then given a chance to write and direct Caged Heat (1974), and he made two more films for Corman before directing Handle with Care (1977; originally titled Citizens Band), a raucous ensemble comedy centred on the citizens band (CB) radio fad that swept the United States in the 1970s.
Reliving the sweet summer days of 1941 ("that last summer before the war"), when he was 9 years old and working alongside his father in the garden, Bobby recalls the powerful enchantment of listening to the Sunday doubleheaders from New York over the radio and being swept up in the cadenced rituals of the game.
And there was a swear-heavy, high-decibel swagger to those longer, polished pieces at Radio City: Chappelle swept across the huge stage and licked the mic for a bit on BBQ and the OBGYN; he walked up an imaginary staircase for one of several tales about his wife and kids.
During each sweep, the radio increases its center frequency with a step of 20 MHz and dwells on each center frequency for 30 ms. The sweep time is fixed to 1 s.
