Square Kilometre Array groundbreaking ceremony in South Africa today

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Another white elephant.. as there will be NO ELECTRICITY to run these things in the 3rd world shithole.
 
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Upcoming headline:
SKA is barely functioning and in a state decay due to years of mismanagement. Apartheid blamed.
 
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Most of the money comes from Academic Institutions in Denmark. They have tight control over budget, receive daily bulletins about progress, snags encountered and technical consideration

The array does not use a huge amount of electricity and what is needed is generated locally, with a small feed from the Liquid Sodium storage generating station near Upington

A good friend is a scientist there. He has met Mrs Pandor and was impressed with her

A task he had for the Meerkat station was calculating an algorithm to offset the delay to a signal received on a bank of dishes compared with the time it was received on a bank further away, taking into account the rotation of the earth, the eccentricity of earth's orbit around the sun and the "wobble" caused by the varying distance of the moon to the earth. Then they had to factor in the daily variance in temperature which affected the shape of the dish and the signal amplitude. Lots of Calculus involved here
 
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So marve to reach another milestone in this thrilling and significant project. Hats off to everyone involved, including SAgov. I'm really keen to take another trip up that way, but it'll have to wait a year, regrettably.
 
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genetic said:
Always some negative tool in the comments. You must be miserable at a braai. :cautious:
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Yup. You have them in almost every thread that has even the slightest bit of good news.

Even if the ANC collapsed tomorrow and a new government was brought in; these same miserable bastards would **** all over it with the same negative outlook.

"But there won't be PoWeR to run it because cANCer"

Give me a ****ing break; like that one aspect has been over looked in such an important project from international investors / share holders in this thing.
 
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chrisc said:
Most of the money comes from Academic Institutions in Denmark. They have tight control over budget, receive daily bulletins about progress, snags encountered and technical consideration

The array does not use a huge amount of electricity and what is needed is generated locally, with a small feed from the Liquid Sodium storage generating station near Upington

A good friend is a scientist there. He has met Mrs Pandor and was impressed with her

A task he had for the Meerkat station was calculating an algorithm to offset the delay to a signal received on a bank of dishes compared with the time it was received on a bank further away, taking into account the rotation of the earth, the eccentricity of earth's orbit around the sun and the "wobble" caused by the varying distance of the moon to the earth. Then they had to factor in the daily variance in temperature which affected the shape of the dish and the signal amplitude. Lots of Calculus involved here
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Why didnt he just use something from nuget or npm?
 
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Why didnt he just use something from nuget or npm?
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No idea. He has a doctorate from Berkeley in electronic engineering. His conversation with his peers is in a different language

I thought that I was good at maths, but is way above my level. All the scientists are very dedicated. The salaries are quite high by SA standards but average for Europe academic institutions

I seem to recall an annual figure of €96m for a budget
 
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chrisc said:
No idea. He has a doctorate from Berkeley in electronic engineering. His conversation with his peers is in a different language

I thought that I was good at maths, but is way above my level. All the scientists are very dedicated. The salaries are quite high by SA standards but average for Europe academic institutions

I seem to recall an annual figure of €96m
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Sorry that was some bad programming humour. Thats not something you can find on a package manager and will need to be done custom with a lot of correction for local equipment/conditions.
 
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