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This isn’t the only stupid telescope. Just outside Shanghai city limits is the Tian Ma radio telescope. It’s 65m. I went there, I don’t think it’s used at all,
by batbomb 8y ago
This isn’t the only stupid telescope. Just outside Shanghai city limits is the Tian Ma radio telescope. It’s 65m. I went there, I don’t think it’s used at all, and it was completed in 2012
- SiempreViernes 8y agoA depressingly common pattern is that you can get funding for building things but not for running and maintaining things. In the case of the Tian Ma they seem to still have money for work on it, I found a 2017 proceeding[1] about adding a new system optimised for pulsar searches. I'm guessing they simply aren't getting very exciting results, which is normal for a non-american dish, you don't hear about Effelsberg every day either. [1]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8105313/ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8105313/
- batbomb 8y agoYou can see Shanghai from it the location (on a clear day). I don’t think they operate it much because of the noise issue. Apparently they also even more rarely point it.
- Kagerjay 8y agoSounds like every olympic stadium after it's been used once