WORLDS BIGGEST TELESCOPE UPDATE
In Chile, Radio Astronomers have Install a Supercomputer,
5000 meters above sea level to be able to service the
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Correlator, which will ultimately combine deep space signals captured by the telescope's dozens of antennas.
But building a supercomputer that can handle signals from 2016 possible antenna pair combinations has been no easy task, since the thin air has prevented the Supercomputer from being cooled properly, as more and more 12 meter dishes are being added to the array, cooling will become more of a problem.
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Correlator, has to ultimately combine deep space signals captured by the telescope's dozens of antennas.
"The technical challenges were enormous, and our team pulled it off," said Mark McKinnon, the North American ALMA Project Director at the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, in a statement.
The telescope should be completed this by March 2013, and
will easily be able to not only make new scientific discoverys, but will certainly be able to find any signatures of extraterestrial life, what ever they may be. In fact the SKA will be sensitive enough to be able to detect an alien Airport radar, or Radio transmissions on a planet located up to 50 light years away.
***Wow
Keep watching this space.
Last edited by Mike Kremer; 01/18/13 10:48 PM. Reason: spelling
