A Telescope as Big as the Earth 172
Roland Piquepaille writes "A week ago, seven telescopes around the world were linked together to watch a distant galaxy called 3C273 in real time and create a single world telescope. The data from these telescopes, which are located in Australia, China and Europe, was streamed around the world at a rate of 256 Mb per second. One of the Australian researchers involved in the project said that it was the first time that astronomers have been able to instantaneously connect telescopes half a world apart. He added that 'the diameter of the Earth is 12,750 km and the two most widely separated telescopes in our experiment were 12,304 km apart.'"
Unfortunately... (Score:5, Funny)
Central Obstruction (Score:5, Funny)
Ok. That might be the geekiest joke in the histroy of
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All at once (Score:5, Funny)
Heh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Real time? (Score:2, Funny)
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Lightspeed Broken! (Score:5, Funny)
This is the real story - FTL communications!
Re:Real time? (Score:3, Funny)
A quaser that close to the earth would be a less than pleasant galactic neighbor.
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This seems impressive but... (Score:1, Funny)
No, it runs Windows ME. (Score:5, Funny)
Wrong it is not 4.22 years. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:FYI (Score:3, Funny)
One advantage of the actual earth-sized telescope is that if you tweak the electronics a bit, then the instrument can also be used as a weapon to destroy rebellious planets.
USA was left out... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wrong it is not 4.22 years. (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, that's depressing (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wow, that's depressing (Score:2, Funny)
If it makes you feel any better, it's really closer to 50%, and most of those people were douchebags.
What's next? One as big as Uranus? (Score:1, Funny)
But I just had to do it.
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Re:USA was left out... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Data rate (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Really? (Score:5, Funny)
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