West Virginia
About West Virginia
West Virginia is a mountainous, landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland to the northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the 12th-least populous state, with a population of 1,769,979 residents. The capital and most populous city is Charleston with a population of 49,055.
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This is the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, which listens for radio signals that might indicate signs of intelligence from 692 of the nearest stars to Earth. It turns out, however, that the signals that aliens might send are very similar to those given out by mobile phones.
from Merry Fishmas!, 2017-12-25 at 00:14:09 · read transcript
Other times West Virginia came up
What else are you gonna do? Oh, that's incredible. Can I do one? Yeah. Elizabeth Royce writes, there's a bridge in West Virginia, which was only fixed after the Soviet Union intervened. This is great. I sort of looked up what's going on here, and basically it was not cool about it on the Blue Ridge Country website. It's called Vulcan this place, this tiny town. Very few people living there.
511: No Such Thing As An Honest Washing Machine, 2023-12-28 · listen
Elizabeth Royce writes, there's a bridge in West Virginia, which was only fixed after the Soviet Union intervened. this is great so I sort of looked up what was going on here and basically it was an article about it on the Blue Ridge Country website it's called Vulcan this.
No Such Thing As An Honest Washing Machine, 2023-12-28 · listen
He started hearing the song. He thought this is incredible and they stayed up all night writing the song and because none of them had been to West Virginia they got an encyclopedia down and they had to look up all the details in order to make the lyrics work. Is the rest of the song does it show an encyclopedic knowledge of West Virginia? Population, 384,000. I heard that they basically liked the scanning of Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenador River and stuff like that.
No Such Thing as Pyramids in Johannesburg, 2025-03-13 · listen
I bet there was a really nerdy schoolboy. It's just sort of this amazing idea that you'd get on a bus. It was only 35 miles. It's between Moundsville, West Virginia and Steubenville, Ohio. During that time, you would pass in and out of time zones back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. That's so cool. What you guys were saying about different towns having their own times.
45: No Such Thing As A Travelator In Ancient Rome, 2015-01-31 · listen
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Coordinates: 39.0000, -80.0000