Wow
$1.5 billion seems a little steep even for 26 satellite dishes. I could have done it for a billion. I would even throw in three months of free HBO.
Just read an article about this telescope the other day. Didn’t expect to be reading about any of its discoveries so soon! Can’t wait for all 66 telescopes to come online. Bet it revolutionizes astronomers understanding of the Big Bang.
ping.
Excellent! I’ve corresponded with one of the principals on the ALMA, fascinated by his work with prism-based attenuators above 100 GHz. I was once designing a secure gigabit data link using the “water hole” at 145 GHz.
I’m guessing they found obamas budget cut proposal?