South Africa Location Tentatively Approved for Major Telescope Project

South Africa tentatively edged out Australia for the location of a very powerful radio telescope project that is expected to cost more than 2 billion dollars. Per the article:

 

The US $2.1-billion SKA radio telescope will be made up of some 3,000 dishes, each 15 metres in diameter. The project will try to answer big questions about the early Universe: how the first elements heavier than helium formed, for example, and how the first galaxies coalesced. The telescope is so sensitive that it could even pick up television signals from distant worlds — something that might aid in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

 

http://www.nature.com/news/south-africa-wins-science-panel-s-backin...

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Permalink Reply by Sarah Walton on March 11, 2012 at 12:05pm

Great news! African nations are full of untapped engineering and scientific talent, and when this project came on the horizon I started rooting for South Africa.

There's also an African telescope array in the cards; an ambitious plan to refurbish out-of-use and soon to be shut down telecommunications dishes that are spread across the continent. Read more about that here: http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/13/03.php

Permalink Reply by John Jubinsky on March 11, 2012 at 5:49pm

Sounds great to me!

Permalink Reply by Joan Denoo on March 11, 2012 at 12:20pm

An exciting project; I wonder how long it will take before we start hearing what they find. Just imagine! 3,000 dishes!  AAWWEE!

Permalink Reply by Madhukar Kulkarni on March 12, 2012 at 6:45am

This is simply mindblowing and surely will bring equally mindblowing results in the times to come. Hats off to those who conceive, who execute and who run this kind of a project. Science cannot just be stopped. A thing of this kind strengthens our belief and pride in science.

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