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Ichingcarpenter

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2. China Building Huge 500-Meter Radio Telescope

Reply to longship (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 23, 2014, 06:54 AM

Jul 2014

The Five-hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, known by the acronym FAST, is a radio telescope currently under construction in a remote area of southwest China's Guizhou province. It will be the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope when completed by 2016. And this afternoon, the first of the main cable net, composed of 9,000 cables, will be installed at the facility.

It's the size of 30 football fields. The world's largest telescope stands in Dawodang, Pingtang County, a region featuring typical Karst depressions.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1309861

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China plans super collider [View all] Ichingcarpenter Jul 2014 OP

Whoa! A good move by the Chinese. longship Jul 2014 #1

China Building Huge 500-Meter Radio Telescope Ichingcarpenter Jul 2014 #2

The US is losing the edge on big science. longship Jul 2014 #3

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