Usually whenever someone has to travel long distance, they take the help of airplane. Airline companies provide you with all the facilities like food, sleep, entertainment, luggage storage and entertainment. Some long distance airlines also provide facilities like personal screen, WiFi and in-flight entertainment. Apart from this, many planes also provide blankets and pillows. But do you know that once Boeing company's plane did some test by placing potato sacks on the seats of the plane. Let's know what it was.
What was tested through potatoes
In the 21st century, it is very difficult for many people to think of living without internet. From entertainment to payment, everything is connected through internet. In such a situation, if someone says that one has to live without internet for a day, then it really seems very difficult. Even if internet is not available in common places, a person starts getting upset, but this facility is not available for common people in airplanes. That is why you have to live without internet there. Do you know that the in-flight WiFi that you use easily today, was not available at one time. But potatoes helped in this.
How did potatoes help in WiFi
You must be wondering what is the use of potatoes in WiFi. Actually, radio waves cannot go through everything, some things absorb them, some reflect them, while some refract them. It depends on what the radio waves are colliding with. Many things absorb WiFi signals, which reduces the signal and humans fall in this category. In such a situation, what used to happen was that WiFi reached the people sitting in the front of the plane, but the ones sitting behind were not able to get signals.
How potatoes changed the story
In such a situation, Boeing tested WiFi with potatoes instead of humans. It was found that about 9000 kg of potatoes absorb the same number of WiFi signals as a plane full of humans. Boeing did this test so that the signal of WiFi could be improved further. In this way potatoes changed the story of WiFi.
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