Very Large Array Gets Expanded Capability 93
Active Seti points out a story about upgrades for the Very Large Array radio telescope. The improvements will increase the VLA's capabilities 10-fold, allowing it to "pick up a cell phone signal on Jupiter." Work on the 28-antenna array is already underway, and it is expected to finish by 2012. From Scientific American:
"Data gathered by all 28 of the 82-foot- (25-meter-) diameter dish antennas are brought to a correlator--a central, special-purpose computer--which merges the input into a form that allows scientists to produce detailed, high-quality images of the astronomical objects under investigation. A new fiber-optic system replaces the older waveguide system for taking data collected by the receivers to the central control building and increases the amount of data that can be delivered from the antenna to the new $17-million correlator being built by Canadian scientists and engineers to handle the increased data flow."
This Just In From Jupiter (Score:0, Funny)
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More interesting is (Score:5, Funny)
Of course - even more interesting is WHO has a cellphone on Jupiter!
Shhh.... (Score:5, Funny)
Awesome (Score:4, Funny)
Re:damn warrantless wiretaps (Score:2, Funny)
Obligatory tag? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is this data provided to the SETI@Home folks? (Score:4, Funny)
In other news (Score:4, Funny)
The improvements will increase the VLA's capabilities 10-fold, allowing it to "pick up a cell phone signal on Jupiter."
The Bush administration pressured Congress to expand the Protect America Act to include Jupiter. Visitors to that planet will now be required to have a US passport to get back in the country.
But Schrödinger! (Score:3, Funny)
Not My Phone (Score:1, Funny)
Re:More interesting is (Score:4, Funny)
Bush shouldn't be tapping phones illegally! Waaaa! Waaaa!
Bush shouldn't be tapping phones on Jupiter! Waaaa! Waaaa!
In this time of war, I simply cannot be a part of aiding a surrender to terror.
If we don't illegally tap phones on Jupiter the terrorists win!
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Re:Very large array (Score:3, Funny)
Using an assignment operator instead of a relational operator, minus 5 geek points.
Simple, really... (Score:3, Funny)
They had to change one line of code:
to:Linked list (Score:2, Funny)