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Re:The Square Kilometre Array: Radio silence for most powerf... by naich on Friday July 17, 2015 @08:30AM (#9902376)
Some of the prototype designs for the aerials are currently being made by a bloke called Pete, in the room next to me. He keeps his bike locked to a table and it gets in everyone's way, so we let his tyres down occasionally. They don't tell you that sort of thing in articles like this.
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Re:The Square Kilometre Array: Radio silence for most powerf... by Trombone12 on Friday July 17, 2015 @09:03AM (#9902499)
They also don't tell you that the SKA is in south africa, with portions built in australia.
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Re:The Square Kilometre Array: Radio silence for most powerf... by Someone on Friday July 17, 2015 @11:15AM (#9903114)
Don't they?

"Once the project is properly under way – with arrays at this site and another in a remote area of South Africa – it will in effect make up the biggest radio telescope the world has seen. At Murchison alone there will be 130,000 radio antennas in the first phase, and maybe a million in the second, taking care of the lower frequency end of the project"

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