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09-26-2016, 01:44 PM
China switches on its massive alien-seeking radio telescope
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China has flipped the switch on its 500 metre (1,640 ft) wide radio telescope — the largest in the world — which is aimed at the heavens in search of extraterrestrial life.
On Sunday, officials cut the ribbon (http://news.xinhuanet.com/tech/2016-09/24/c_1119618201.htm) on the FAST (Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope), located in a basin in the mountai**us Pingtang County in Guizhou, southwest China.
SEE ALSO: You k**w that weird outer space radio signal? It's probably **t aliens (http://mashable.com/2016/08/30/strong-alien-signal-seti-debunked/?utm_campaign=Mash-BD-Synd-Samsung-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-BD-Synd-Samsung-All-Partial)
The 1.2 billion yuan (US$180 million) FAST has 4,450 panels, and is the size of 30 football fields.
Scientists claimed during the launch that the "super eye in the sky" was sensitive e**ugh to detect a cell phone in use on the moon. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/26/china-massive-radio-telescope/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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China has flipped the switch on its 500 metre (1,640 ft) wide radio telescope — the largest in the world — which is aimed at the heavens in search of extraterrestrial life.
On Sunday, officials cut the ribbon (http://news.xinhuanet.com/tech/2016-09/24/c_1119618201.htm) on the FAST (Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope), located in a basin in the mountai**us Pingtang County in Guizhou, southwest China.
SEE ALSO: You k**w that weird outer space radio signal? It's probably **t aliens (http://mashable.com/2016/08/30/strong-alien-signal-seti-debunked/?utm_campaign=Mash-BD-Synd-Samsung-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-BD-Synd-Samsung-All-Partial)
The 1.2 billion yuan (US$180 million) FAST has 4,450 panels, and is the size of 30 football fields.
Scientists claimed during the launch that the "super eye in the sky" was sensitive e**ugh to detect a cell phone in use on the moon. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/26/china-massive-radio-telescope/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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