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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on October 08, 2005, 10:27:57 am

Title: Cranking Up the Allen Telescope Array
Post by: Nemesis on October 08, 2005, 10:27:57 am
Link to full article (http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_igps_one_051006.html)

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In the patchwork of dry, cow-fouled ranch lands 250 miles northeast of San Francisco, an unusual crop is poking above the dusty shrubbery. Three dozen metal mushrooms have sprouted near the modest village of Hat Creek, and are turning their aluminum eyes skyward. These antennas, 20 feet in diameter and the height of a football goal post, are the vanguard of an eventual herd of 350 dishes, sprinkled over more than a half-mile of dirt and lava. They are the first installment of the Allen Telescope Array.

By spring, 42 of these antennas will be working, and while this is scarcely more than 10% of the ATA’s final tally, even this partial sub-array can do interesting science. Beginning a few months from now, it will.


First project for the incomplete radio telescope SETI.
Title: Re: Cranking Up the Allen Telescope Array
Post by: NJAntman on October 08, 2005, 11:29:33 am
Link to full article ([url]http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_igps_one_051006.html[/url])
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Beginning a few months from now, it will.
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When did Yoda start writting articles?
Title: Re: Cranking Up the Allen Telescope Array
Post by: prometheus on October 08, 2005, 11:48:08 am
Bandying semantics, you are! ;)
Title: Re: Cranking Up the Allen Telescope Array
Post by: NJAntman on October 09, 2005, 12:45:11 pm
Not, am I.