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Tarlc Send message Joined: 9 Jan 19 Posts: 1 Credit: 278,393 RAC: 0 |
Now that the new FAST (Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope) telescope in southwest China is now up and running, will we be getting data sets from them to analyse? If, as they claim, it is three times as sensitive as the Arecibo observatory the details we could drag from the data they could send us would be astounding. When can we expect an update on this please? |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30646 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Now that the new FAST (Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope) telescope in southwest China is now up and running, will we be getting data sets from them to analyse? If, as they claim, it is three times as sensitive as the Arecibo observatory the details we could drag from the data they could send us would be astounding. When can we expect an update on this please? As you may have heard relations between the USA and China are not the best. Unfortunately politics sometimes gets in the way of science. |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
FAST has been collecting Breakthrough Listen Data for over three years. SETI@Home gets most of its data now from the Green Bank Breakthrough Listen receiver. There are plans to incorporate data from Parkes and FAST; Parkes is in development but there is no timeframe for FAST. But it's not like there isn't any significant SETI activity from FAST already. By the way, SETI@Home only has the capacity to analyze one percent of the data from just the Green Bank source. There certainly may be plenty we're already missing, so it's arguable that further data sources are unnecessary when we can't even cope with a reasonable fraction of what we have now. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22199 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Certainly another "equatorial" source is not required, what is currently not really covered is the Southern Hemisphere - hence the interest in data from Parkes. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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