New Chip For Square Kilometer Radio Telescope

New Chip For Square Kilometer Radio Telescope 88

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:21PM from the little-green-men-using-quantum-computers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet Aus reported on a new low-noise chip that could help in building the $1.6B Square Kilometer Array, the world's largest radio telescope. Wikipedia claims the telescope will be 50 times as sensitive as current instruments. It will have a resolution able to detect every active galactic nucleus out to a redshift of 6, when the universe was less than 1 billion years old and way crazy. It will have the sensitivity to detect Earth-like radio leakage at a distance of several hundred to a few thousand light years, which could help greatly with the search for extraterrestrial life. The chip's designer, Prof. Jack Singh, commented on the chip's ability to help with quantum computing research, due to its ability to operate at millikelvin temperatures, necessary to prevent quantum decoherence."

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Porn - first proof of ET's... (Score:1, Funny)

by tjstork ( 137384 ) writes: <todd.bandrowsky@ ... UGARom minus cat> on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:23PM (#21959354) Homepage Journal

Suddenly we find our local group of stars is host to numerous planets broadcasting loads of porn. The first image of intersteller life will be a happy finish!

low noise chip (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:29PM (#21959476)

Great, I can eat 'em in bed without the wife complaining..

Re:Porn - first proof of ET's... (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:32PM (#21959532)

Yeah, baby!
Pictures of the universe when it was only in it's "way crazy" first billions!
Barely legal!!!
HOTT planet on planet action!!!!! [wikipedia.org]

technically (Score:5, Funny)

by circletimessquare ( 444983 ) writes: <circletimessquar ... m minus language> on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:32PM (#21959538) Homepage Journal

the era of Way Crazy is not the correct term for the billion year old universe. the billion year old universe is known as the You Gotta Be Freakin Kiddin Me Epoch, not to be confused with the You Gotta Be Freakin Nuts Epoch much earlier. Way Crazy is a specific terminology for the time period between supersymmetry breaking and the formation of the quark-gluon plasma, aka the Thats Outta Sight Man era

Re:technically (Score:3, Funny)

by $RANDOMLUSER ( 804576 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:38PM (#21959624)

Maybe this advance will help us explain the Fuggettaboutit Extinction.

Re:They'd better not waste it on SETI (Score:4, Funny)

by zappepcs ( 820751 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:38PM (#21959628) Journal

No, of course not. SETI will not stand for any of this metric crap, they are holding out for the square MILE version!

Sorry to bitch but... (Score:3, Funny)

by x1n933k ( 966581 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:39PM (#21959636) Homepage

This is a bit off topic but can someone please edit this summary. Did you even read it? Terrible grammar.

[J]

iRonically... (Score:5, Funny)

by ExE122 ( 954104 ) * writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:45PM (#21959734) Homepage Journal

you still need to crank the volume all the way up to get your iPod FM transmitter to work...

Millikelvins (Score:3, Funny)

by jhines ( 82154 ) writes: <john@jhines.org> on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:49PM (#21959794) Homepage

Cool baby, cool.

Is it true... (Score:4, Funny)

by jd ( 1658 ) writes: <imipak@ y a hoo.com> on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:49PM (#21959800) Homepage Journal

....that the chips were actually salvaged from a fleet of BBC television detector vans?

Re:Sorry to bitch but... (Score:3, Funny)

by ScentCone ( 795499 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:53PM (#21959848)

but can someone please edit this summary. Did you even read it? Terrible grammar

We're always glad to see a new slashdot member here. Your welcome packet is in the mail!

Re:Porn - first proof of ET's... (Score:5, Funny)

by jeffmeden ( 135043 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:56PM (#21959898) Homepage Journal

We already sent them porn via snail mail [wikipedia.org], the next logical step is to start trading via radiotelescope. Hope they liked the first stuff.

I don't even know what that means. (Score:3, Funny)

by RandoX ( 828285 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:59PM (#21959950)

Will my taxes go up because of it?

Re:Is it true... (Score:2, Funny)

by crow ( 16139 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @05:17PM (#21960268) Homepage Journal

No, but the BBC is funding the project in the hopes that it can pick up reflected signals from 20+ light years away so that they can recover all the TV recordings that they tossed out thinking that they had no value.

Re:Low noise (Score:3, Funny)

by Clueless Moron ( 548336 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @07:45PM (#21962600)

But you need that thermal noise in your audiophile setup. That's to give the music that "warm" sound.

Horrible communication of the future? (Score:4, Funny)

by LingNoi ( 1066278 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @08:04PM (#21962808)

several hundred to a few thousand light years, which could help greatly with the search for extraterrestrial life.
I'd hate to hear the conversation if the round trip for communications is over thousands of years..

Earth: Hi this is Bill from the planet Earth!
Aliens: Hello Bill this is Zargo from Optimum Prime, what do you want?
Earth: Hi, this is Ted. We'd like to know more about you!
Aliens: What happened to Bill?
Earth: Hi, this is Jane. Bill and Ted are Dead.
Aliens: What?!

Surely if Aliens are 1 thousand light years away it would take 6 thousand years to have that conversation. Although we'd probably just spam them all of Earth's Knowledge which would piss off the aliens into believing our planet is full of spammers and destroy us...

Re:Porn - first proof of ET's... (Score:3, Funny)

by smorken ( 990019 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @08:25PM (#21963024)

Im not sure that we would want to be trading porn with an alien species. What if they all look like jabba the hut? Some things you cannot unsee.

Re:Low noise (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @09:04PM (#21963442)

Thermal noise is precisely white noise, aka "hiss".

Actually, that hissing noise is the joke flying over your head.

Re:Porn - first proof of ET's... (Score:3, Funny)

by QuickFox ( 311231 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @09:12PM (#21963524)

Much more important for the survival of our species, let's hope the SETI people on Earth aren't slashdot trolls sending goatse to the aliens.

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technically (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:They'd better not waste it on SETI (Score:4, Funny)

Sorry to bitch but... (Score:3, Funny)

iRonically... (Score:5, Funny)

Millikelvins (Score:3, Funny)

Is it true... (Score:4, Funny)

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I don't even know what that means. (Score:3, Funny)

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Horrible communication of the future? (Score:4, Funny)

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