The Square Kilometer Array

EyesWideOpen writes "A very ambitious project to build the world's largest radio telescope, named the Square Kilometer Array or SKA, is in its early design stages. As its name suggests the SKA will be one square kilometer in size if it gets built. The SKA consortium (consisting of Cal Tech, Cornell, SETI, the Max Planck Institute and Beijing Astronomical Observatory to name a few) hopes to build the telescope by 2010. "If they succeed the SKA will be so big and precise it will jump the world's current best, the American Very Large Array in New Mexico, by a factor of 100, both in sensitivity and resolution." It's interesting to note that the project is based on technology that will only exist in three, five or seven years -- to account for data rates of tens to hundreds of terabytes per second and storage in the petabytes -- so they're counting on Moore's law to hold true."

Comments

SETI

[Daxbert]

This just means more data units for the SETI virus.

If built.

[saintlupus]

As its name suggests the SKA will be one square kilometer in size if it gets built... ...and will be attended only by sweaty teenagers jerking arrhythmically in wool suits.

--saint

Re:Who is the Creator?

[kmellis]

regarding your sig...

Any sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from Gods

...from the point of view of an insufficiently advanced civilization.

Built by 2010...?

[blakespot]

I think the square kilometer array, to be completed in 2010 would be an excellent tool to augment our search for extraterrestrial life. I hope that the funding, so critical to such an endeavor, is made available and that we can cooperatively, as a planet, make use of this in harmony. An intersting thing about such a large arr -g@@! #$ 01001 #3t245@

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS--EXCEPT EUROPA.

ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.

blakespot