LOFAR, the World's Biggest Telescope, Is Up and Running 100
HansonMB writes with this bit from Motherboard: "Back in September, Motherboard ventured into the English countryside to listen to the universe. There lives a brand new piece of Europe's already-massive Low Frequency Radio Array radio telescope: a clever EU-wide installation that uses low-tech antennas and supercomputer-power data processing to transform into a giant mega-telescope, absorbing cosmic radio waves from the full sky." That was then; now, says the article, "In the past month, using signals from the new station, LOFAR has delivered its first EU-UK radio 'pictures.'"
EU-UK? (Score:3, Insightful)
What the hell is "EU-UK" supposed to mean? Did the Conservatives pass a bill without anyone noticing or something?
Re:my prediction (Score:4, Insightful)
To be fair, it's probably differently fascinating than we hope.
Re:my prediction (Score:3, Insightful)
It couldn't be much weirder than the japanese stuff.
Re:EU-UK? (Score:4, Insightful)
The Great British tradition of considering themselves superior to and different from the rest of the world. (To be fair, that is mostly an English trait)