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Australia and South Africa To Share the Square Kilometer Array

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-get-weekends-but-i-get-holidays dept.

ananyo writes "The battle for the world's largest radio telescope has ended in a draw. As an earlier Slashdot story suggested, South Africa and Australia are to split the Square Kilometre Array, a €1.5 billion (US$1.9 billion) project made up of 3,000 15-meter-wide dishes and an even larger number of simple antennas. The decision was announced at a meeting outside of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, following a vote by SKA's international board."

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  1. What? by durrr · · Score: 4, Funny

    So do we average out the proposed locations and put it in the middle of the ocean then?

  2. You know negotiations succeeded when... by schitso · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...each side comes out equally unhappy.

  3. Really? by Zaldarr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You know, you could just give it to one of us. We can take bad news. What the hell even is this? Some kind of game children played in the 90's where everybody won? I was under the impression that we were doing science.

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    1. Re:Really? by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Some kind of game children played in the 90's where everybody won?

      There's no I in "team", but there's two in "Winning." You think that means we both win? Wrong. I win twice. Now give me that Silver medal.

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  4. So it's a half-kilometer array? by cpu6502 · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. They are splitting the frequencies, which is a pretty good idea: "Most of the subsequent telescope dishes and mid-frequency aperture arrays will be built in Southern Africa, while the low-frequency aperture array antennas will be positioned in Australia." - One kilometer of MF and one kilometer of LF reception.

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  5. Re:Name by TapeCutter · · Score: 4, Funny

    But we will call it "Bruce" to avoid confusion.

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  6. Re:Name by RivenAleem · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wasted a perfect opportunity to call it "Wisdom of Solomon Array"