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> The light buckets will act like floodlights in reverse, pulling in radio waves from a huge swath of sky. So basically, they are nothing like floodlights. O
by varjag 10y ago
> The light buckets will act like floodlights in reverse, pulling in radio waves from a huge swath of sky.
So basically, they are nothing like floodlights.
OK I get it analogies are often important to make science accessible by the public, but at some point it just becomes confusing atop of incorrect.
- true_religion 10y agoBuckets was a good analogy. I don't know why the writer decided to add another totally orthogonal atop it.
- taneq 10y agoYou mean you wouldn't describe them as basically backwards dark-suckers but in the radio spectrum?