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Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Goes Live

Posted by timothy on from the cover-for-the-alien-invasion dept.

New submitter Random Data writes "Australia's initial part of the Square Kilometre Array has officially opened. 36 dishes out of the eventual 96 are now online, with a data output of 40Gb/s (and the article includes LoC conversion!). More info is available from CSIRO."

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  1. you get what you pay for by z3d4r · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Some of you might remember previous slashdot articles featuring the CSIRO sueing tech companies over patents.
    http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/04/22/1545238/csiro-settles-with-tech-giants-over-wifi-patent-spat
    http://slashdot.org/story/12/04/05/2131233/the-story-behind-australias-csiro-wi-fi-claims
    Well...this is the kind of thing the cash from those patents is paying for :)

    I, for one, welcome our new CSIRO nerd overlords.

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