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Global Internet Telescope Tops Hubble's Resolution
satorchi writes "
The Arecibo Observatory
together with the
European VLBI Network have used the internet to make a
real-time transatlantic synthesis telescope. Data from the individual telescopes was transfered via the internet, and processed in real time by the central processing station at the Joint
Institute for VLBI in Europe. 9 terabits were transfered during the 20 hour experiment, and the resulting synthesised telescope had a resolution of 20 milliarcseconds, about 5 times better than the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This level of detail is equivalent to picking out a small building on the surface of the Moon!"
I think it does, now if we only could convince people that the image generated by the telescope is not part of a government cover-up ;-)
-- look sir droids...
Then they'll claim the whole Internet Telescope is a global spoof.
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
Oh, no room for Bender, huh? Fine! I'll go build my own lunar lander, with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the lunar lander and the blackjack. Ahh, screw the whole thing!
-- look sir droids...
Not nearly as much as the impending /.ing it's about to recieve...
Muhahahahaha
9 terabits were transfered...
Yes, but how many Libraries of Congress is 9 terabits equivalent to?
.: Max Romantschuk
The monolith factory.
bkd
imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
We could watch cute alien chicks on thier home planets!
9TB of data - the actual dishes only needed 30GB, but since they had the line, they raped thier fav. P2P networks for pr0n, w4rez and mp3z.
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
Because they're making a complete mess of it?
http://blog.nexusuk.org
Such as the 1:4:9 monolith?
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Silly wabbit, everyone knows the secret buildings on the moon are either underground or otherwise camouflaged!
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
If a typical mobile phone handset was really the equivalent of a billion billion supernovas, then you could see why they don't let you use them on aircraft. Even one supernova stuck in your ear might cause cancer over long periods. Okay, I know the comparison is really between the signal from the supernova and the signal of a mobile phone somewhere within its operating range. Even then, the comparison is still pretty meaningless, as we are not interpreting data from the astronomical signal. Whatever...
So it can transfer 9TB in 20 Hours but can't take slashdot for just 5 minutes!!
If you'd taken the blue pill, you'd know there is no moon... er, I mean spoon.
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
They're complimentary technologies.
I just had a vision of arriving in a hotel room to find it occupied by a several metre wide cylinder that fills the entire length of the room; I squeeze around it to the phone and call reception. "Oh, that's the complimentary space telescope. We haven't launched it yet."
I think you mean complementary.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
.45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, Byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors... the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed, "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
What I want to know: what are these "small buildings" on the moon that they're looking at???