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Re:A lunar farside low radio frequency array for dark ages by surgeryres on Sunday December 26, 2021 @06:00PM (#29697200)
Fascinating.

They mention in the paper that the Dark Ages power spectrum would require a 100,000 dipole antenna array, seems like we are far from that.

Full disclosure brain fart - dark side of the moon still gets sun light (duh, right?), this basic fact had me scratching my head with regards to power source for an embarrassing amount of time.

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Re:A lunar farside low radio frequency array for dark ages by vkreso on Monday December 27, 2021 @08:56AM (#29702530)
One of two components of phase 1 implementation of the SKA[1], the SKA1-LOW in Australia, will host around 130,000 dipole antennas[2] when finished with construction starting soon.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array

[2] https://www.skatelescope.org/key-documents/

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Re:A lunar farside low radio frequency array for dark ages by tooltower on Sunday December 26, 2021 @10:37PM (#29698858)
Some scientists prefer the term Far Side because of this :)
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