Funding Cut For Arecibo Observatory

satorchi writes "In a recent Senior Review conducted by the National Science Foundation, a panel of experts recommended the reduction of funding to Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest radio telescope. Unless other sources of funding are found, Arecibo faces severe cuts in its program, with the prospect of closure around the year 2011. Development of the global project called the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is cited as a reason to decommission Arecibo, but with the SKA coming online around the year 2020, closure of Arecibo in 2011 is some ten years premature. Until SKA is up and running, Arecibo remains the world's most sensitive radio telescope."

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useless article

[dotancohen]

I'm as sensitive as any other Star Trek fan to the closure of any important scientific instrument, but the article is nonsense. It doesn't describe the benefits of the telescope. It's as if "yeah, well, no harm done" in a kind of way. Don't reporters learn _anything_ about the subjects they write about, or do they suspect that the public is as ignorant as they are?
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