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E.T. phone home: China eyes hunt for alien life with giant telescope
Sunday, July 3, 2016 22:17
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China on Sunday hoisted the final piece into position on what will be the world's largest radio telescope, which it will use to explore space and help in the hunt for extraterrestrial life, state media said.
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, is the size of 30 football fields and has been hewed out of a mountain in the poor southwestern province of Guizhou.
Scientists will now start debugging and trials of the telescope, Zheng Xiaonian, deputy head of the National Astronomical Observation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which built the telescope, told the official Xinhua news agency …. http://in.reuters.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2016/07/et-phone-home-china-eyes-hunt-for-alien.html
