Rumble in the Airwaves

fizban writes: "We've talked a lot on Slashdot about active uses of the radio spectrum for things like wireless networking and global communications (Iridium). But what about the passive users who are more and more often finding themselves trampled upon by the corporations and military who grab up more and more of the unused spectrums for their own uses? Check out this New York Times article for a little insight into the challenges being faced by today's and tomorrow's radio astronomers."

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Far Side of the Moon

[The Iconoclast]

One of these days, we are going to have to have a radio observatory (and a visual observatory while we're at it) on the far side of the moon. Since the far side of the moon is always facing away from the earth, you've got thousands of kilometers of rock between the recievers and earthly interfereance. A visual observatory there would also be nice. There would be no atmosphere to distort the images and you could build a lot bigger telescope than Hubble.