First light for world’s largest radio telescope
The competition heats up: China has begun operational use of the world’s largest radio telescope, Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope(FAST).
The radio telescope is similar to Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The dish is built into a natural depression in the ground and does not move.
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The competition heats up: China has begun operational use of the world’s largest radio telescope, Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope(FAST).
The radio telescope is similar to Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The dish is built into a natural depression in the ground and does not move.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Why would China spend money on this? Just to demonstrate its power or to be the first one to know if there is any ET?
What are we not understanding?
China has from our estimation has extreme financial issues (from a market driven point of view) and they are involved in building tremendous infrastructure projects from highways, to bridges, to air ports, to giant radio telescopes, to a blue water navy, to space stations, etc. etc.