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World's largest radio telescope takes shape, to decode cosmic message
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| | 2016-07-03 21:27:40
Posted on 07/04/2016 9:19:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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07/04/2016 9:19:55 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:20:40 AM PDT
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knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true ... and it ticks people off)
To: IncPen
this thread has potential
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07/04/2016 9:35:01 AM PDT
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Nailbiter
To: BenLurkin
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07/04/2016 9:38:22 AM PDT
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RetSignman
(Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
To: knarf
lol. That poor kid got ####ed :)
Life lesson.
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:39:24 AM PDT
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dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: BenLurkin
"Upon completion, the telescope will dwarf Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, which is 300 meters in diameter. It will also be 10 times more sensitive than the steerable 100-meter telescope near Bonn, Germany, he said." OF COURSE, everything the Chi-Comms do is bigger and
and better then what the Western World has ever done.
It can't be any other way in the Chi-Comm mind. Anyway, best of luck on their new radio telescope. I hope it does work the way they claim it will.
Maybe something interesting will be discovered.
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07/04/2016 9:41:10 AM PDT
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StormEye
To: StormEye; BenLurkin
It used to be we were the ones that built the best and the biggest - sad how far we’ve fallen. Now we lead the world in perversion. Happy 4th, I think.
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:47:54 AM PDT
by
aquila48
To: BenLurkin
Imagine how much rice you could fit in that thing hell you could feed all of china
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:48:34 AM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom yes I know john 3:16)
To: BenLurkin
According to a government plan, 9,110 residents living within five kilometers of the telescope will be resettled in Pingtang County and Luodian County in four settlements by the end of September. Tom Friedman approves.
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07/04/2016 9:49:13 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
To: BenLurkin
Perhaps FAST will discover a new type of Chinese noodle that will result in immediate sterilization.
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:51:13 AM PDT
by
Mr Apple
(WADDLING HILLARY >> COOKIES, CANDIES, CAKE, DESSERTS & CASHEWS....the WALRUS LOOK)
To: BenLurkin
It does appear that it is more for meat and potatoes (or stir fry and rice) radio astronomy, (real science) searching for extraterrestrial life is more a public relations side show.
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07/04/2016 9:55:16 AM PDT
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Lonesome in Massachussets
(I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
To: BenLurkin
wait until they fill it with rice. Chopsticks will be made from two redwoods. ;-)
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07/04/2016 9:57:09 AM PDT
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r_barton
(GO TRUMP!!!)
To: BenLurkin
T.....R.....U......M......P
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07/04/2016 10:15:14 AM PDT
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beethovenfan
(Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
To: BenLurkin
“We apologise for the inconvenience.”
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07/04/2016 10:30:12 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(An orange jumpsuit is the new black pantsuit.)
To: BenLurkin
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07/04/2016 10:42:57 AM PDT
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SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/04/2016 10:55:42 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
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To: BenLurkin
So what is its diameter/radius?
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posted on
07/04/2016 10:55:49 AM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: lepton
It’s named the “Five-hundred-meters Aperture Spherical Telescope” or FAST. Like Aricebo, the dish is not steerable. Because it is fixed, staring straight up, it can only observe what Earth’s orbital rotations bring into view.
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07/04/2016 11:09:54 AM PDT
by
earglasses
(I was blind, and now I hear...)
To: earglasses
Thank you.
It’d be interesting to see what a space-based synthetic aperture telescope could do on a multi-kilometer frame. Shouldn’t be too long before we could do it relatively cheaply - though it might also be a collection of steerable sub-units.
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07/04/2016 11:21:33 AM PDT
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lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: earglasses
Scientists will then begin debugging and trial observation of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), said Zheng Xiaonian, deputy head of the National Astronomical Observation (NAO) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which built the telescope.
Doh!
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07/04/2016 11:23:44 AM PDT
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lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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