New Chip For Square Kilometer Radio Telescope

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."

Re:Sorry to bitch but...

[Kurous]

Not only that...but since when did Wikipedia become a valid source?

Re:Sorry to bitch but...

[ExE122]

The same day Roland Piquepaille became a valid source...

You are getting your news feeds through Slashdot, ya know =P

The most depressing thing in the world..

[mgblst]

would be discovering other life in the Universe, but never the drive to carry us there.

Re:They'd better not waste it on SETI

[Anonymous Coward]

>> We would most likely not be able to communicate with them, and even if we could, we would have to perfect quantum mechanics and have teleportation working properly before communication is practical.

"Even if Christopher Columbus discovers something over there, we'd have to perfect a new method of travel which won't take months to take us to the new land. Why bother? Cancel the exploration" - Queen Isabella

Good thing not everyone has reasons as poorly as you.