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Re:A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run by Qworg on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:46PM (#14991720)
Yes, definitely.

You can think of the trade off roughly as "frequency increases increase bandwidth and decrease penetration/range"

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Re:A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run by exabrial on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:39PM (#14995863)
Until you get to x-rays! I've always wondered why this is
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Re:A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run by planteen on Saturday August 12, 2017 @10:29AM (#14997998)
If you are looking at xray penetration in the atmosphere, it is very opaque. Almost no xrays get through hence why space telescopes are needed to do xray astronomy.
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