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China is building a huge ring of telescopes to study eruptions on the sun
space.com ^ | Andrew Jones

Posted on 08/23/2022 12:18:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope (DSRT) is under construction on a plateau in Sichuan province, southwest China. When completed, it will consist of 313 dishes, each with a diameter of 19.7 feet (6 meters), forming a circle with a circumference of 1.95 miles (3.14 kilometers).

The telescope array will image the sun in radio waves to study coronal mass ejections (CMEs), large eruptions of charged particles from the sun's upper atmosphere, the corona.

The project also includes the Chinese Spectral Radioheliograph for monitoring solar activity, which is being constructed (opens in new tab)in Inner Mongolia.

The radioheliograph will consist of 100 dishes in a three-arm spiral arrangement and will study the sun in a wider band of frequencies than DSRT to further Chinese research of the sun, solar physics and space weather.

The entire project aims to run close to 300 instruments deployed at 31 stations across China at specific longitudes and latitudes. It is led by the National Space Science Center (NSSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and involves more than 10 institutions and universities in China.

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; carringtonevent; catastrophism; ccp; china; cme; coronalmassejection; science; sida; telescopes

1 posted on 08/23/2022 12:18:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

This might actually allow them to predict “Climate Change” more than our doom and gloom crowd.


2 posted on 08/23/2022 12:19:30 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: BenLurkin

To what end? If the sun drastically erupts with a massive flair nothing will stop it and they’ll be no place to hide. A gigantic solar flair would literally cook the inner planets and blow the atmosphere off Jupiter.


3 posted on 08/23/2022 12:21:03 PM PDT by The Louiswu (If your child requires validation from Chuck E. Cheese you have failed as a parent. )
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To: BenLurkin

Bet they can be redirected to study our activities in space.


4 posted on 08/23/2022 12:23:34 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: The Louiswu

It will tell them when and for how long American communications will be disrupted.


5 posted on 08/23/2022 12:23:49 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: BenLurkin

Planning to build giant Archimedes lenses to burn their enemies to a crisp?

6 posted on 08/23/2022 12:27:56 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: BenLurkin

This sort of how China began in “The Three Body Problem”.


7 posted on 08/23/2022 12:34:30 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BenLurkin; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...
Thanks BenLurkin.



8 posted on 08/23/2022 12:39:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin
Obviously, the chinese will attempt to harness the sun's eruption
to totally destroy their enemy, the USA.

Just another nefarious attempt by the chinese overlords to
take over the entire world.

9 posted on 08/23/2022 12:53:05 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (Expect Nothing)
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To: rfp1234

That’s the first thing I thought of as well.
Never trust a Chicomm!


10 posted on 08/23/2022 12:53:31 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: BenLurkin

This is not aboout climate change. Its about studyng the suns massive fusion process. The Chinese want to create a way for a fusion generator right here on earth.That would make them unstoppable.


11 posted on 08/23/2022 12:56:28 PM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: The Louiswu
To what end? If the sun drastically erupts with a massive flair nothing will stop it and they’ll be no place to hide. A gigantic solar flair would literally cook the inner planets and blow the atmosphere off Jupiter.

No, that would not happen.

12 posted on 08/23/2022 1:09:42 PM PDT by montag813
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To: PIF

Yep. Pretty good books.

L


13 posted on 08/23/2022 1:11:34 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: BenLurkin

Let ‘em. It’s no threat to us whatsoever, as far as I can see... Sure, they’ll be studying the sun, the most awesome nuclear reactor in these parts of the galactic woods. But the chance they’ll be able to turn any knowledge gained into a weapon... ZERO, imho. So let ‘em. There are far more productive avenues of study for bomb builders.


14 posted on 08/23/2022 1:34:02 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: BenLurkin

No jokes about what planet San Fagsicko is building to inspect eruptions.


15 posted on 08/23/2022 2:24:00 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: doorgunner69

Huh?


16 posted on 08/23/2022 2:43:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: doorgunner69

“No jokes about what planet San Fagsicko is building to inspect eruptions.”

“Great minds” think alike. When they can detect/inspect eruptions on Uranus, perhaps they can put a stop to the “Pox” that’s being passed around by “men that have sex with other men”.


17 posted on 08/23/2022 3:19:35 PM PDT by Salty Longshanks
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To: Candor7

This sounds like something we should’ve thought of first.


18 posted on 08/23/2022 3:34:40 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: BenLurkin

You are a humorless mod as well.............


19 posted on 08/23/2022 10:32:52 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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