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    Default 'The Eye of Heaven' camera is switched on - FAST telescope in China

    Hey Avalonians,

    Just read this :

    Quote IF THE human race is to ever stumble upon genuine signs of alien life, it could be thanks to a ginormous telescope the Chinese government just switched on.

    Since 2011, China has been steadily working away on the world’s largest radio telescope, known as FAST (Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope).

    The project is tucked away in the forest of Guizhou province in China’s southwest and began searching for signals from stars and galaxies and, perhaps, extraterrestrial life on Sunday.

    The project is another sign of China’s rising ambition in space exploration as the Asian power looks to bolster its global scientific prestige.

    The now second largest telescope in the world is the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico but China’s new world-beater, with a 500m-diameter, dwarfs its Caribbean counterpart which boasts a 300m diameter.

    Nicknamed Tianyan, or the Eye of Heaven, China’s telescope has double the sensitivity of the Arecibo Observatory, and five to 10 times the surveying speed, according to Chinese officials.

    The telescope cost upwards of $230 million and took more than five years to build — a process which was made possible by engineers from Australia’s top scientific body the CSIRO who collaborated on the project.

    Most radio telescopes use receivers that can only see one piece of sky at a time, but CSIRO engineers designed receivers with many separate, simultaneous beams.

    The technological innovation allows FAST to search a much larger portion of the sky for faint and hidden galaxies.

    Now that it has finally be turned on, the telescope will scan the cosmos and 4450 movable panels will be used to reflect radio signals from distant parts of the universe towards a 30-tonne retina hanging above the dish.

    According to a report by The Guardian, one of the scientists behind the project offered an interesting fact to help people imagine the enormous size of the dish: If the Telescope’s bowl was full of wine, each of the world’s seven billion people could fill five bottles, he said.





    Quote Researchers quoted by state media said FAST would search for gravitational waves, detect radio emissions from stars and galaxies and listen for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life.

    “The ultimate goal of FAST is to discover the laws of the development of the universe,” Qian Lei, an associate researcher with the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told state broadcaster CCTV.

    “In theory, if there is civilisation in outer space, the radio signal it sends will be similar to the signal we can receive when a pulsar (spinning neutron star) is approaching us.”

    The huge dish requires radio silence within a 5km radius on the ground meaning that 9000 residents from eight surrounding villages were forced from their homes and required to relocate. But for a government keen to flex its scientific muscle, such problems are of little concern. Those forced to relocate due to the presence of the telescope were reported to receive just 12,000 yuan ($A2559) in compensation for the inconvenience.

    According to its operators, the world’s newest and largest telescope is in good working order. Chinese state media reported that during a recent test, the dish received radio signals from a pulsar that was 1351 light-years from Earth.

    Beijing has poured billions into such ambitious scientific projects including its military-backed space program, which saw the launch of China’s second space station earlier this month — which the country now says is out on control.

    Another government-backed program recently carried out by China in collaboration with Austrian researchers saw China launch the world’s first quantum-enabled satellite in what the government hopes will be the first step towards creating a global communication network completely impervious to being hacked.
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    Are we getting ready for disclosure ?
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    Default Re: 'The Eye of Heaven' camera is switched on - FAST telescope in China

    I strongly believe that the Chinese will make first contact, I always have believed it.

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    Default Re: 'The Eye of Heaven' camera is switched on - FAST telescope in China

    Hey there,

    Well if they do, they now have on the tool to find and expose ETs... or any message from the skies...
    What made you believe so strongly they would be the first ones ?


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    PS : love the choice of avatar pic, the battle in the sky of Nuremberg, isn't it ?
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    Quote Posted by ElfeMya (here)
    Hey there,

    Well if they do, they now have on the tool to find and expose ETs... or any message from the skies...
    What made you believe so strongly they would be the first ones ?


    Hugs

    PS : love the choice of avatar pic, the battle in the sky of Nuremberg, isn't it ?
    I don't know why I think that, it just popped into my head one day a long time ago.

    Yes, it is Nuremberg.

    Greetings & Salutations from Patagonia.

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    Default Re: 'The Eye of Heaven' camera is switched on - FAST telescope in China

    Well compared to other nations, they certainly appear more peaceful, respectful and they aren't starting wars in other nations for resources, but actually asking if the nation would share or sell w/China in trade. Dealing as fairly as possible for all parties concerned and swapping skilled med techs and allowing school training teaching the Chinese dialects to have strong business ties to all nations as good neighbors should do.

    If the US doesn't end this elite destruct mode, they will surely be left behind.

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    • Weird Radio Burst That Repeated 2000 Times May Have an Explanation:

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    Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are cosmic sources emitting millisecond-duration radio bursts. Although several hundreds FRBs have been discovered, their physical nature and central engine remain unclear. The variations of Faraday rotation measure and dispersion measure, due to local environment, are crucial clues to understanding their physical nature. The recent observations on the rotation measure of FRB 20201124A show a significant variation on a day time scale. Intriguingly, the oscillation of rotation measure supports that the local contribution can change sign, which indicates the magnetic field reversal along the line of sight. Here we present a physical model that explains observed characteristics of FRB 20201124A and proposes that repeating signal comes from a binary system containing a magnetar and a Be star with a decretion disk. When the magnetar approaches the periastron, the propagation of radio waves through the disk of the Be star naturally leads to the observed varying rotation measure, depolarization, large scattering timescale, and Faraday conversion. This study will prompt to search for FRB signals from Be/X-ray binaries.
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    Default Re: 'The Eye of Heaven' camera is switched on - FAST telescope in China

    "The huge dish requires radio silence within a 5km radius on the ground meaning that 9000 residents from eight surrounding villages were forced from their homes and required to relocate."
    What the ?? Seems very wrong. Why didn't they build in an isolated remote location? Maybe there isn't any unpopulated area left over there, with their massive population. You would hope the people were very generously compensated.

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