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A piece of metal that turns invisible radio chaos into your favorite song.
means Existing or happening in the air, or relating to aircraft — also the antenna that catches signals out of thin air.
from From Latin 'aerius,' meaning 'of the air,' which traces back to Greek 'aer' — the word for air or mist itself. The noun use for a radio antenna emerged once engineers needed a word for a thing that literally reaches up into the air to grab invisible waves — the name simply describes the job.
- worse than
- nothing, except two aerials fighting for the same signal
- golden age
- cars had them taller than their drivers once
- today
- fake shark fins hide GPS and radio alike
- physics flex
- length actually matches the wavelength it catches