Got my email and the snail mail letters are on the way. If you don't know what I am talking about see this.

After making necessary corrections to the documents of course.

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Got my email and the snail mail letters are on the way. If you don't know what I am talking about see this.

Wish I could help guys, but I'm on the wrong side of the pond.

regards, Gizbar.

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Same here. Unfortunately, we have a similar problem in that the government wants to close down Jodrell Bank.

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Same here. Unfortunately, we have a similar problem in that the government wants to close down Jodrell Bank.

News today was that that has been averted.

F.

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I'd like to volunteer a year service to Arecibo... Assuming accommodations are provided.

Done

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I will be mailing off letters for myself and my g/f (she has given her permission, of course).

I emailed them from the Congress website.

I hate physically mailing thing.

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Printed and mailed...

-Dave

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Same here. Unfortunately, we have a similar problem in that the government wants to close down Jodrell Bank.

News today was that that has been averted.

F.

Great, thanks Fred, I must have missed it.

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Letters sent. But I feel like I'm a boob mailing three other boobs. The NSF sucks air and bends over to grab their ankles for more important people than us, I'm afraid.

(Maybe we can get the 007 fans out there to join us; isn't that where part of Golden Eye was filmed? Saving it would be sort of like saving a global historic site, right?)

Just waiting for the fireworks to begin.

Just finished reading the latest issues received of "Solar System", a partwork here in the UK on building your own Orrery.

They deal with NEO's. On reading further, they state that Arecibo is part of "Superguard" funded by Congress. Why in hell do they want to close it down for? Or have they come up with something better?

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Contact your US Senators here.
Contact your US Representative here.

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Please, also consider using the Parkes radio telescope.

Yes, yes, I know; it's smaller than Arecibo, but Parkes is still far better than no radio telescope at all.

Henri.

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A radio telescope on the dark side of the moon would be nicer... No RFI at all!! It would be much easier to interprete/analys the results as natural ones (pulsar, black holes,...) or aliens.

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Can another country help fund the Arecibo Observatory? Why can't they / why won't they? It's kind of like a International Space Station – just on the ground. If another country could pitch in, I think it would help stabilize funding. Plus, all it would take is a North Korea or Iran to offer funding and congress would restore full funding.

Can another country help fund the Arecibo Observatory? Why can't they / why won't they? It's kind of like a International Space Station – just on the ground. If another country could pitch in, I think it would help stabilize funding. Plus, all it would take is a North Korea or Iran to offer funding and congress would restore full funding.

I would ask your equivalent representatives in your country if they are willing to contact the U.S. and offer such a deal. Perhaps if there were enough demand, something could be done.

Good luck.

Anyone here been to Arecibo? I have. Had meetings in San Juan 3 years ago and the guy who organized the meetings had worked at Arecibo when he was in college. We didn't just go to the visitor's center, we went out on the platform. That thing is huge and very impressive. Gain in the main lobe is 70 dB. That is one heck of an antenna.

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On the Arecibo site I've learnt that they are taking part in EXPReS, an European program in Very Long Base Interferometry. Maybe the European Community might help, but I am afraid they are spending all their research money on Big Science Projects like LHC and Iter.
Tullio

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