New Zealand Joins Aussie Bid For Vast Radio Telescope Array

schliz writes "A radio telescope in New Zealand has joined five in Australia to challenge Southern Africa to host the international Square Kilometer Array (SKA) in 2012. The newly connected telescope in Warkworth, New Zealand (PDF), is connected to an Australian data processing facility via a 1 Gbps network. Each telescope reportedly produces up to 1 Tb of data per hour of observation. IBM expects the whole of the SKA to produce an exabyte of data per day."

"Square Kilometer Array"

[ScaryMonkey]

Gotta love the creativity that goes into these names. Too bad they stopped with the previous naming pattern, I was waiting for the "Fucking Enormously Huge Array".

Re:Backup Officer

[Shakrai]

It's probably a cloud solution involving a few million g-mail accounts ;)

Re:It's nice to have a real time link for this wor

[Thanshin]

now it's virtually impossible to get the Forest Service to permit additional work.

- Buy the fiber roll.
  - Throw some green and brown paing buckets over it.
  - Before it dries, throw in little branches, leaves, and red squirrels.
  - Buy a ninja costume, a shovel and a pair of night vision goggles.
  - Every night, go to the forest, lay out some meters of underground fiber and hide the camo roll.

If someone finds you, dressed as a splinter cell ninja, carrying a shovel and an oversized rotten donut, you can make a deal: if he finds out what's your PhD on, you give him $5k, if he doesn't, he leaves you alone.

Fucking Awesome Radio Telescope

[Shivetya]

I assume that name would not pass?

Re:New Zealand Story

[Anonymous Coward]

We don't shear our sheep down south, we keep them for ourselves!

Re:Is this really a good idea?

[seanvaandering]

Just as long as the porn is not of women with small tits... that would be illegal