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Getting Ready To Map The (Visible) Universe
phanki writes "The Arecibo Observatory is gearing up to map the universe soon. This
article talks about the university getting a set of new radio recievers to complete the background work for the mapping process.
So very soon we may have the map for the Andromeda !"
While this map may very well aid the fairer sex navigate the stars someday, we real men will do as we have for thousands of years...wander aimlessly claiming that we are not lost.
When do we think Mapquest will have this available.
So very soon we may have the map for the Andromeda !
Hah, I can already download those in blueprint form off of a Kevin Sorbo fansite.
Bring me the map for the SeaQuest DSV, and then we'll talk.
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Would be great if Sega was doing this for a game, like their Carbondale mapping effort.
The Universal Horror Game.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
"The 1,000-foot-wide parabolic receiver - composed of 38,000 aluminum tiles - allows researchers to listen to sounds in space..."
Geez. The lengths some guys will go to just to be able to listen to radio that isn't controlled by ClearChannel!
How are you going to keep them down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus?
Someone actually remembers the old "Wet Trek" show, where the acting bar was so low that members of the Deloise family outshined everyone else in the show?
Where Roy Scheider always had this tired "I got dragooned into this because of JAWS" look on his face?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
I have to go a couple hundred miles to tune in a Clear Channel station.
The company controls something like 8% of radio stations; nothing like a monopoly or a domination.
After all the misleading hype concerning the recent FCC decision, most probably think that Clear Channel controls 80% instead of the tiny percent they do have.
"The Arecibo Observatory is gearing up to map the universe soon"
Heh... why does that sentence make me think of a lazy teenager?
"Clean your room!"
"Moooooom, I said I'll do it soooon!!!"
"Map the universe!"
"I'll do it tomorrow!!!"
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Getting Ready To Map The (Visible) Universe is a bad title, as the word 'visible' in astronomy means light with wavelengths between ~380 nm and 780 nm, while Arecibo looks at stuff from 3 cm to 6 m.. Also, the AP news article repeatedly equates the radio telescope with a listening device, though it can map the sky at resolutions better than most telescopes.
"I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
" Of course it was an over-generalization, but in and around Pittsburgh, PA, it holds some water as nearly everything is ClearChannel or Infinity:"
You then list 8 CC/Infinity stations. A quick search on a station locater shows 41 total stations to listen to in that area: again, even in this market, CC and Infinity control a minority of the radio stations (20%).
You left off about 28 non CC/Infinity stations on your local list. Oops!
To say that Clear Channel controls everything is not only an overgeneralization: it is nothing like true.
An interesting aspect of space exploration is that it's the only frontier we've ever attempted to explore with decent maps already in hand.
In the past, from Moses to Marco Polo to Columbus, maps were impossible. They tried to draw them as they went along.
We'll probably never again be at a point where we say "What in the heck is out there?" We'll never again have Uncharted Territory. But rather we say "What in the heck will that look like up close." In a way it's kind of sad to lose that mystery. But in a way it's pretty cool to explore Charted Territory that has never been explored before.
A silly example of the difference this makes is turning off the Fog Of War on your favorite video game... Profoundly changes the whole nature of the game. No more thinking you landed on the coast of India and getting the name of an entire race wrong. All the mysteries start and stop with the limitations of our "long range sensor sweeps". I don't know where I meant to go with this... I guess it's sad on one hand that "totally uncharted territory" is forever gone, but on the other hand the trade off in speed of discovery, safety, return on investment, etc, will be pretty incredible, and well worth it to all but the terminally romantic.
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"The Listenable Universe"?
"The Radioable Universe"?
"The Tune-In-Able Universe"?
"The Don't-Touch-That-Dial-able Universe"?
"The Universe We Can Sense Using This Telescope Right Here"?
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
We've sent humans past the moon... take Michael Collins for example, the first man to "orbit" the moon while armstrong and aldrin were landing.
Ok guys this is kinda OT, but I always wondered for a long time. Let's say you have a hollow sphere. THe inside of the sphere is lined with mirrors (basically, a mirror sphere turned inside out) Now what will happen if you flash a beam of light into that sphere? Let's say that you were able to flash that light through a small hole and then replace that hole back with a mirror. Will the light keep flashing back and forth to infinity?? If you were viewing from the inside without affecting the path of the light, would it be shiny all over the place? What will happen?!!!!