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I’d like to be able to say that sharing the world’s largest radio telescope with South Africa is a reasonable outcome for Australia.
I’d like to be able to say we deserve to be a part of it. I’d like to be able to say that. But I can’t.
We don’t deserve it. We don’t deserve it because barely anyone knows that it exists.
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Australia could lose its bid to host the World Cup of science, accused of being “cheap” and “arrogant”.
Although it’s slipped under the radar, Australia is one of two countries short-listed as sites for the world’s biggest radio telescope.
The Square Kilometre Array is one of the “most important international scientific projects of the 21st century”, according to Brian Boyle, the SKA director at the CSIRO.
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aimee w says:
Thing is (I’m South African, but living in New Zealand now), the political instability in Sub-Saharan Africa puts their chances of winning the bid at a substantial disadvantage. And there are also other issues, such as the looting of equipment for sale/other uses. Not that I don’t think Australia/NZ should… Read more »
I hope we win the World Cup bid but I really want us to win the bid to host the SKA. If you haven’t heard of the SKA project then it is time to tune in.
On a similar scale to the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope (SKA) is an international mega-science project of mind-boggling dimensions. It will be fifty times more powerful than the most powerful radio telescope array currently in existence.
The data recorded by Australia’s SKA pilot project – the Australian SKA Pathfinder – will in one week exceed all the information that is currently on the World Wide Web.
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phil says:
They keep it quiet as to not upset the religious fundies so that they can’t organise a protest movement before it’s too late to stop the project. Science and especially astrophysics has rendered any god thought up by man thus far so inconsequential that those who think they believe in… Read more »
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6clegs says:
I didn’t even know about SKA! and I bet I’m not the only one. Thanks. Read more »
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