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China Finishes Building Its Alien-Hunting Telescope
Work has finished on the world's largest radio telescope, which will hunt for extraterrestrial life and explore space, reports Chinese news agency Xinhua. The world's most populated nation fitted the final of 4,450 panels into the centre of the 500m-wide Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, over the weekend. The telescope, which cost $180 million -- and took five years to build -- will be switched on from September. Zheng Xiaonian, deputy head of the National Astronomical Observation under the Chinese Academy Sciences said:The project has the potential to search for more strange objects to better understand the origin of the universe and boost the global hunt for extraterrestrial life.Gizmodo adds:FAST is almost twice as large as the next biggest radio telescope, which is in Puerto Rico. It will be used for early-stage research by Chinese scientists for a couple years, and then be used more widely. FAST is capable of detecting gravitational waves, pulsars and, eventually, amino acids on other planets.
To be fair, I'd rather be unfairly judged by an alien looking at a chinese guy than one of you guys. Nothing personal.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Capitalism in a nutshell. Don't buy the cheapest. Buy something more expensive, but benefits someone that you like. Because it's always really easy to tell where the money is going.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Why do you think we would want the country that consumes the most resources, produces the most waste, is on the sharpest decline of awareness of the surrounding world, waging the most wars and conducts the most espionage on other countries, while subjecting its population to monitoring and surveillance and treats them all as potential enemies, to represent and speak on behalf of the entire planet should a first contact be established? Only an American would think that makes sense.
racist
Racist? So it's a fabrication that "traditional Chinese medicine" uses a lot of weird shit to make impossible claims? Is it completely untrue that many Chinese still eat animals people in the West might consider pets? These are all fabrications? LIGHTEN UP A LITTLE. Or go hide in your safe space.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
There isn't really anything gained by the more specific term. Those in the know will already understand that the reference is to Arecibo, and those who do not know will have one less thing to Google.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
So it's a fabrication that "traditional Chinese medicine" uses a lot of weird shit to make impossible claims?
Its a global issue. In the USA, you have people who think the earth was created six thousand years ago, and evolution is wrong. Would you want them to make contact?
Is it completely untrue that many Chinese still eat animals people in the West might consider pets?
Yes, just as many westerners still eat animals that people in India might consider to be sacred cows. Also, we poison animals that people in India think to be holy as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Its just a cultural thing.
In fact, all the science fiction movies/books have some US agency dissecting the aliens. Its not the chinese who dissect (or eat) them, its the some branch of the US Government.
Living in a western country, I would obviously prefer that the USA made first contact rather than china, but that still doesn't mean that china will do a horrible job at it, or would first eat the aliens or something.
It has long been assumed that when First Contact were to happen, it would involve representatives of the American government
You mean it has long been portrayed in English speaking movies that are invariably made in the USA.
Nothing you said, nothing at all, stands in comparison to the horrible fucking shit that the chinese government and the people of china get up to.
Fuck china and fuck anyone who defends it.
Signed, not an american.