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/
first rule of austerity politics: why spend money to have something, when you can choose not to spend the money and then not have the thing.
I used to be close to an astrophysicist. This is a huge loss.
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.)
I know it’s considered bougie to care about “traditional” arts and sciences
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bougie to care about “traditional” arts and sciences but this fills me with a cold rage
dirtbag leftism was a mistake
“The US decides not to rebuild Puerto Rico” is a better way of saying how they treat their Caribbean colony
