SKA News

[AtW]

“ Amidst the paroxysms of coronavirus and Brexit, the United Kingdom on Wednesday found time to ratify the Convention that formally establishes the SKA Observatory (SKAO), paving the way for the giant radio telescope to be built.

The Convention governing the SKAO requires that at least five nations, including the three host countries – Australia, South Africa, and the UK – must ratify the text. South Africa and Australia have already signed, Portugal did so last week and the Netherlands and Italy had already put pen to paper. The UK gave the relevant treaty the nod in July 2019 but had not signed the convention until this week.”

UK finally signs off on Square Kilometre Array Observatory Convention • The Register

I like the optics on this one - looks great!

[xoggoth]

So they have to deal with 8.8 terabytes of data per second from each telescope. How do we know space aliens will not hack into this data and take over our internet?

[BR14]

don't worry, the Wailers have that covered.

[AtW]

So they have to deal with 8.8 terabytes of data per second from each telescope. How do we know space aliens will not hack into this data and take over our internet?

How do you know they have not done that already and now we need to call for the invasion fleet?

[Old Greg]

How do you know they have not done that already and now we need to call for the invasion fleet?

It’s a reptilian globalist plot to steal fish from sovereign British waters.

[ladymuck]

It's a cool story bro.

I remember being told about the data feed Imperial College received from CERN. Petabyets (or more) of the stuff. They would do their analysis, record the results and have to delete the data because there's no way they could store it all.

Apparently they had some "fat pipe" direct connection but it would still take hours / overnight to get the data from a given experiment.

[BrilloPad]

SKA=Squirrel Killers Association