China begins operating world’s largest radio telescope (bigstory.ap.org) 104 points by velodrome 9y ago ↗ HN
[–] srikar 9y ago ↗ Sad this was promoted instead of this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12574669That is the original ap.org link [–] sctb 9y ago ↗ Sorry your submission didn't come out on top, but thanks for the link! We've updated the URL of this one from http://phys.org/news/2016-09-china-world-largest-radio-teles.... [–] billforsternz 9y ago ↗ I love the light handed, thoughtful, considered moderation on HN. The contrast with Stack Overflow (as per an active thread at the moment) is stark. Well done, please keep it up.
[–] sctb 9y ago ↗ Sorry your submission didn't come out on top, but thanks for the link! We've updated the URL of this one from http://phys.org/news/2016-09-china-world-largest-radio-teles.... [–] billforsternz 9y ago ↗ I love the light handed, thoughtful, considered moderation on HN. The contrast with Stack Overflow (as per an active thread at the moment) is stark. Well done, please keep it up.
[–] billforsternz 9y ago ↗ I love the light handed, thoughtful, considered moderation on HN. The contrast with Stack Overflow (as per an active thread at the moment) is stark. Well done, please keep it up.
[–] cianuro 9y ago ↗ Don't use the sun as an amplification vector and attract Extraterrestrial attention! [–] qd6pwu4 9y ago ↗ Haha, Three Body is a great fiction story [–] merpnderp 9y ago ↗ Spoiler alert, that's still in my TOREAD list :/ [–] cianuro 9y ago ↗ Sorry :( You should still definitely read it! It's an excellent story. [–] tavish1 9y ago ↗ can you please delete this, this is a spoiler (not the parent comment) [–] [deleted] 9y ago ↗ (comment deleted)
[–] qd6pwu4 9y ago ↗ Haha, Three Body is a great fiction story [–] merpnderp 9y ago ↗ Spoiler alert, that's still in my TOREAD list :/ [–] cianuro 9y ago ↗ Sorry :( You should still definitely read it! It's an excellent story. [–] tavish1 9y ago ↗ can you please delete this, this is a spoiler (not the parent comment)
[–] merpnderp 9y ago ↗ Spoiler alert, that's still in my TOREAD list :/ [–] cianuro 9y ago ↗ Sorry :( You should still definitely read it! It's an excellent story.
[–] daeken 9y ago ↗ The article mentions searching for gravitational waves. Anyone have info on how they might accomplish that via radio telescope? [–] ngoldbaum 9y ago ↗ Pulsar timing arrays: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar_timing_array [–] daeken 9y ago ↗ Ah hah! I thought it might be something like that, but figured there was something I wasn't considering. Thanks for the link.
[–] ngoldbaum 9y ago ↗ Pulsar timing arrays: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar_timing_array [–] daeken 9y ago ↗ Ah hah! I thought it might be something like that, but figured there was something I wasn't considering. Thanks for the link.
[–] daeken 9y ago ↗ Ah hah! I thought it might be something like that, but figured there was something I wasn't considering. Thanks for the link.
[–] ddon 9y ago ↗ Strange that the last news from FAST was on August 9th: http://fast.bao.ac.cn/en/index_eng.htmlBasically for month and a half pretty much no press releases from them.
[–] leesalminen 9y ago ↗ I didn't see it in the article, but I recently heard that NIST played a role in the design of this telescope.
[–] ryanmarsh 9y ago ↗ Everyone remembers what Arecibo was originally built for right? [–] TeMPOraL 9y ago ↗ I don't, and for those who like me didn't know:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory#Design_and...Apparently it was initially meant to help identify re-entering warheads so that they could be shot down before hitting their targets. [–] ryanmarsh 9y ago ↗ Or pick up radio signals from Russia when they bounced off the moon... https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
[–] TeMPOraL 9y ago ↗ I don't, and for those who like me didn't know:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory#Design_and...Apparently it was initially meant to help identify re-entering warheads so that they could be shot down before hitting their targets. [–] ryanmarsh 9y ago ↗ Or pick up radio signals from Russia when they bounced off the moon... https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
[–] ryanmarsh 9y ago ↗ Or pick up radio signals from Russia when they bounced off the moon... https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 45.4 ms ] threadThat is the original ap.org link
Basically for month and a half pretty much no press releases from them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory#Design_and...
Apparently it was initially meant to help identify re-entering warheads so that they could be shot down before hitting their targets.