The radio telescope at Arecibo was once the largest single-aperture telescopes in the world, at 305m/1000ft across. During its lifetime it was surpassed by the 500m aperture spherical telescope (FAST) in Guizhou, China, which is still in use. Interferometry makes “virtual” large-aperture radio telescopes possible by combining inputs from separate radio telescopes. Such as the Very Large Array (US), VLTI, and ALMA, and the planned Square Kilometre Array.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_telescope https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/technology/interferometry/

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20 points

Capitalism drives innovation.

(Seriously I know it’s considered bougie to care about “traditional” arts and sciences but this fills me with a cold rage. There is no other dish like this on the planet.)

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Can’t this do what the Arecibo did, but better?

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3 points

Forgotten about that! China kicking goals as usual.

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8 points

Yes, and we’ve also figured out how to mimic the benefits of having a very large telescope by using multiple smaller telescopes that are far apart.

…but why not have two instead of one?

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My brother in Christ, soviets put the first man in space! :curry-space:

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30 points

bougie to care about “traditional” arts and sciences but this fills me with a cold rage

dirtbag leftism was a mistake

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2 points

nah fuck old art

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33 points

I know it’s considered bougie to care about “traditional” arts and sciences

wat

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Yeah that was a dumb statement said under too much alcohol. AES states have been huge supporters of the arts.

I think it was just some of the discourse around the Van Gough has mad me a bit butthurt.

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