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A Telescope as Big as the Earth
Roland Piquepaille writes "A week ago, seven telescopes around the world were linked together to watch a distant galaxy called 3C273 in real time and create a single world telescope. The data from these telescopes, which are located in Australia, China and Europe, was streamed around the world at a rate of 256 Mb per second. One of the Australian researchers involved in the project said that it was the first time that astronomers have been able to instantaneously connect telescopes half a world apart. He added that 'the diameter of the Earth is 12,750 km and the two most widely separated telescopes in our experiment were 12,304 km apart.'"
...all data from the Shanghai telescope was filtered and replaced with promotional material for the Peoples Republic of China. Apparently the galaxy bears a striking resemblance to Chairman Mao.
Wow! And I thought SCT's had a large central obstruction.
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Ok. That might be the geekiest joke in the histroy of
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I for one, welcome our giant eyed, galactic..... I soviet Russia, the world telescopes ....
Scientist can finally peer deep into goat.....
be gentle.
If I went around claiming I was an emperor...they'd put me away!
Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of these!
But this is slashdot. A slashdoter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber!
There's a galaxy only two and a half light years from here? It's suddenly feeling awfully crowded...
I read up on it, but I didn't see the downsides of this technique being discussed. What's the drawback of using this technique as opposed to an actual earth-sized telescope?
One of the Australian researchers involved in the project said that it was the first time that astronomers have been able to instantaneously connect telescopes half a world apart.
This is the real story - FTL communications!
You missed the "G" in front of the ly for that object. 2.44 Gly is a bit further away than 2.44 ly.
A quaser that close to the earth would be a less than pleasant galactic neighbor.
The ringing of the division bell has begun... -PF
I wonder what the Storm botnet could do?
Just seconds after the feeds started the galaxy imagery was somehow lost and replaced with the standard BSOD screen.
Actually light from the closest know star takes about 8 minutes to get to the earth.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
One advantage of the actual earth-sized telescope is that if you tweak the electronics a bit, then the instrument can also be used as a weapon to destroy rebellious planets.
...because their 52kb/s upload from Comcast just didn't cut it.
The good news is that 94% of every human being who has ever lived is now dead.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Yeah, yeah. I know.
:D
But I just had to do it.
You know they'll be getting a call from Comcast security here pretty soon and TOSsed off their network. Goddamn bandwidth hogs stealing mah internet. They must be up ta no good. Probably pirating some nudie flix or sumting.... but whatever it is, I know it's illegal and they better cut that shit out ASAP before they get hauled of by the mafia...
Dammit, how about a spoiler alert! Not everyone's a speed reader.
Jesus, if you haven't read it after 1250 years, you're going to have to live with the spoilers!
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Do not look into the telescope with your remaining planet!