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MIT, NASA to Put Telescopes On the Moon

Posted February 18, 2008 8:44 AM

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NASA approved today an MIT proposal to plan an array of radio telescopes on the FAR SIDE OF THE MOON. Called the Lunar Array for Radio Cosmology (LARC) project, the moon location would shield the telescopes from light and radio interference from the Earth, which would radically improve the quality of the observations. The array would cover some two square kilometers, and be installed by robots. I want one!

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Re: MIT, NASA to Put Telescopes On the Moon

02/18/2008 11:26 PM

Exactly who are they going to listen to?

Who are they going to talk to?

I trust they look for a large black monolith, before commencing any installation.

Also check out: http://www.crystalinks.com/2001z.html

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Re: MIT, NASA to Put Telescopes On the Moon

02/19/2008 10:59 PM

Good show! It will help in detecting all kinds of radio sources, especially stars. Perhaps someone out there is sending a faint message we could not pick up before. The bulk of the moon would shield it from Earth but not from the Sun.

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