Curtin: Major Milestone for Murchison Widefield Array Radio Telescope

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Major Milestone for Key Radio-Astronomy Project
Curtin University | Murchison Widefield Array | 2017 Nov 14

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The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) has recorded a key milestone in its ongoing development, with the building and deployment of equipment for its Phase Two expansion now complete.

In an operation that has taken nearly 16 months, 128 new antenna stations have been assembled on the MWA site by a team of MWA operations staff, students from Curtin University and international project partners, as well as Geraldton contractors GCo Electrical.

This latest addition to the Curtin University-led MWA, brings the total number of antenna stations onsite at its remote location in Western Australia’s midwest region, to 256. ...

“By doubling the number of antennas, and quadrupling the size of the area they are distributed across, the telescope is now ten times more powerful in its exploration of the evolution of the universe, with an ability to discern details twice as fine as previously,” Associate Professor Wayth said. ...

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What a fine use for chicken wire

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What a fine use for chicken wire

• Seinfeld : The Voice
  • (Scene: At NYU)

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• • Doing laundry…

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• a solitary man with a messy apartment which may or may not contain a chicken.

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Kramerica went on in spite of official distain to prove conclusively that dropping a giant petroleum filled balloon from great height onto a sidewalk is a bad idea.

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Kramerica went on in spite of official distain to prove conclusively that dropping a giant petroleum filled balloon from great height onto a sidewalk is a bad idea.

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Keystone Pipeline Leaks 210,000 Gallons of Oil in South Dakota
By MITCH SMITH and JULIE BOSMAN, The New York Times, NOV. 16, 2017

<<About 5,000 barrels of oil, or about 210,000 gallons [; i.e., equal to a house sized oil ball 37.7 ft in diameter], gushed out of the Keystone Pipeline on Thursday in South Dakota, blackening a grassy field in the remote northeast part of the state and sending cleanup crews and emergency workers scrambling to the site. “This is not a little spill from any perspective,” said Kim McIntosh, an environmental scientist with the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The spill, near Amherst, S.D., comes just days before regulators in neighboring Nebraska decide whether to grant the final permit needed to begin construction on a different pipeline proposal, the Keystone XL, which would be operated by the same company. An announcement in Nebraska is expected on Monday.>>