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New Chip For Square Kilometer Radio Telescope
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet Aus reported on a new low-noise chip that could help in building the $1.6B Square Kilometer Array, the world's largest radio telescope. Wikipedia claims the telescope will be 50 times as sensitive as current instruments. It will have a resolution able to detect every active galactic nucleus out to a redshift of 6, when the universe was less than 1 billion years old and way crazy. It will have the sensitivity to detect Earth-like radio leakage at a distance of several hundred to a few thousand light years, which could help greatly with the search for extraterrestrial life. The chip's designer, Prof. Jack Singh, commented on the chip's ability to help with quantum computing research, due to its ability to operate at millikelvin temperatures, necessary to prevent quantum decoherence."
Suddenly we find our local group of stars is host to numerous planets broadcasting loads of porn. The first image of intersteller life will be a happy finish!
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Great, I can eat 'em in bed without the wife complaining..
the era of Way Crazy is not the correct term for the billion year old universe. the billion year old universe is known as the You Gotta Be Freakin Kiddin Me Epoch, not to be confused with the You Gotta Be Freakin Nuts Epoch much earlier. Way Crazy is a specific terminology for the time period between supersymmetry breaking and the formation of the quark-gluon plasma, aka the Thats Outta Sight Man era
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
No, of course not. SETI will not stand for any of this metric crap, they are holding out for the square MILE version!
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This is a bit off topic but can someone please edit this summary. Did you even read it? Terrible grammar.
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you still need to crank the volume all the way up to get your iPod FM transmitter to work...
Capitalism: When it uses the carrot, it's called democracy. When it uses the stick, it's called fascism.
Cool baby, cool.
....that the chips were actually salvaged from a fleet of BBC television detector vans?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Will my taxes go up because of it?
But you need that thermal noise in your audiophile setup. That's to give the music that "warm" sound.
Earth: Hi this is Bill from the planet Earth!
Aliens: Hello Bill this is Zargo from Optimum Prime, what do you want?
Earth: Hi, this is Ted. We'd like to know more about you!
Aliens: What happened to Bill?
Earth: Hi, this is Jane. Bill and Ted are Dead.
Aliens: What?!
Surely if Aliens are 1 thousand light years away it would take 6 thousand years to have that conversation. Although we'd probably just spam them all of Earth's Knowledge which would piss off the aliens into believing our planet is full of spammers and destroy us...
Actually, that hissing noise is the joke flying over your head.