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SKA to be built in Australia??

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SKA to be built in Australia??
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SKA to be built in Australia??
February 13, 2012 at 10:59 pm
http://www.smh.com.au/wa-news/wa-in-spot...1t1hv.html

Quote:The location of the groundbreaking $2.5 billion Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project will be announced in April, and just two teams are left in the running: Australia-New Zealand versus South Africa.

Read more: http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/wa-in-...z1mJz6hXGX

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RE: SKA to be built in Australia??
February 14, 2012 at 3:52 am
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To put it into perspective, the telescope will capture the equivalent of more than a million CD ROMs of data every minute.

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That's an interesting unit of measurement.
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RE: SKA to be built in Australia??
February 14, 2012 at 3:56 am
Considering there are different capacities for CD ROMs, it certainly is. ~750 TB a minute is pretty good though.
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RE: SKA to be built in Australia??
February 14, 2012 at 3:58 am
Last I checked SA was favored to win.
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RE: SKA to be built in Australia??
February 14, 2012 at 6:03 am
Who knows Chuck?? With the current government??

Suffice to say it is down to the Southern hemisphere and Australia is in there with a chance Thumb up
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RE: SKA to be built in Australia??
February 14, 2012 at 12:34 pm
I wonder if you can pick up HBO with that thing?
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RE: SKA to be built in Australia??
February 14, 2012 at 9:45 pm
(February 13, 2012 at 10:59 pm)KichigaiNeko Wrote: http://www.smh.com.au/wa-news/wa-in-spot...1t1hv.html

Quote:The location of the groundbreaking $2.5 billion Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project will be announced in April, and just two teams are left in the running: Australia-New Zealand versus South Africa.

Read more: http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/wa-in-...z1mJz6hXGX

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I heard about this at a local astronomical society "open night" I think around Winter or Spring of last year.
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RE: SKA to be built in Australia??
February 15, 2012 at 1:42 am
Yes you did Trist.

Quote:A number of countries including Australia/New Zealand, Africa, Argentina/Brazil, Canada and China initially put in proposals to host the SKA, but this has now been whittled down to two contenders: Australia/New Zealand and Africa.


http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2...430265.htm
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RE: SKA to be built in Australia??
February 15, 2012 at 8:50 am
Ah well if we don't get that we're still in the running for the many square kilometre nuclear waste repository.
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