I wonder how anyone manages to tote around something that would seem to be so conspicuously large and heavy, even for someone the size and strength of an NFL offensive or defensive lineman, or a power weight lifter.

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I don't know if there are any radio telescopes that are smaller than the individual radio telescopes that comprise the Allen Telescope Array, and these look to my eyes as something that no one person could possibly even lift, let alone carry for any distance.

"Astronomers spot cold brown dwarf with a radio telescope."
Brooks Hays for UPI Science News; November 9, 2020.
https://www.upi.com/Science...first/1741604939761/

But I did find this:

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"A miniature radio telescope in every back yard."
Tom Nardi for Hackaday(.com); October 22, 2019.
https://hackaday.com/2019/1...e-in-every-backyard/

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I served with a guy named Terrence down @ Ft. Gordon, GA (home of the Signal Corp!) way back in the day. Just called him when I saw the thread title to make sure you weren't talking about him. He's black, he's 5' 2" and he'd wear all of his winter gear indoors (and he was in the same communications company I was hence the "radio" part).

The phone call worked out well since I haven't talked to him in a couple of years and his wife just had baby #4.

Anyway, funnier to me than you. Carry on!

https://scitechdaily.com/se...arch-for-alien-life/

Arecibo in danger of failing completely........

quote Originally posted by maryjane: https://scitechdaily.com/se...arch-for-alien-life/ Arecibo in danger of failing completely........

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" The facility was awaiting a team of engineers this week who were expected to begin temporary emergency repairs related to the August incident."
Emergency... 4 months later.

quote Originally posted by 2.5: quote " The facility was awaiting a team of engineers this week who were expected to begin temporary emergency repairs related to the August incident." Emergency... 4 months later.

I spend time each year, (3-4 weeks min.), in the D.R.

That's close to P.R. and the rest of the Caribbean islands.

My colleagues and I say that they operate on "island time" down there. They basically get to it when they get around to it.

So you no worry mon. Relax. They get around to it soon.

I studied Brown Dwarfs in college one semester. They are pretty interesting objects.. To big to be a planet, but not large enough or hot enough to kick those reactions into gear to become a star..

Some of them are so "cool" you could actually "touch" them and not get burned. (If touching a big ball of gas is a thing, lol) I remember reading about one that's atmospheric temp was only like 80 degrees.

Pretty cool stuff.

Edit to add:

Some scientists in the past if I remember correctly (this was like 20 years ago when I studied them) wanted to consider Jupiter to be a "Brown Dwarf". It would have been classified as a smaller brown dwarf. I guess its size and mass is pretty close to being consider a brown dwarf, but not quite there.

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