☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@natematias" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>natematias</span></a></span> “the author is one of the leading scholars studying NASA and its impact”</p><p>One of the reasons I post articles from Nature, informed opinion & discussion by SMEs cc <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@woo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>woo</span></a></span></p><p>Using WiFi? 🛜</p><p>A simple example of basic science as a building block to Engineering and products? Australian John O’Sullivan using FFT to solve the problem of black hole signals arriving out of sync. WLAN was developed by O’Sullivan, Percival, Deane, Daniels, Ostry (<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CSIRO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSIRO</span></a>) used this FT mathematics to break radio signals into ‘constituent frequencies’ and then re-assemble them. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WLAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WLAN</span></a> was patented in ‘96, CSIRO now have multiple licensed patent users of the WiFi technology includes HP, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA and AT&T. </p><p><<a href="https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/wi-fi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nma.gov.au/defining-moments/re</span><span class="invisible">sources/wi-fi</span></a>> / <<a href="https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/it/wireless-lan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">csiro.au/en/research/technolog</span><span class="invisible">y-space/it/wireless-lan</span></a>></p>