Western Australia Govt pumps A$20m into star trek

Western Australia Govt pumps A$20m into star trek

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A journey through the stars, via ground based radio astronomy? That’s the WA (Western Australia) Govt’s plan, with a $20m package to boost their chances of winning the A$2 billion ‘Square Kilometre Array’.

Australia is one of two international bidders shortlisted for the ‘Square Kilometre Array’, or SKA - an international project to develop a next-generation radio telescope capable of exploring the origins of the universe, with scientists and research organisations from 19 countries contributing to the project.

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Cosmos Magazine continued that: “The advanced array would consist of thousands of radio dish antennas spread across the continent to create a 'virtual' dish thousands of kilometres in diameter. Though spread over more than 3,000 km, half of the antennas in the Australian SKA would be in a central 5 km by 5 km region in outback Western Australia”.

WA Premier Alan Carpenter said in a statement that: “The SKA is considered to be the world’s biggest science project of the 21st century. Our logic is simple - we want to win the SKA project for Australia. We already have the best site in the world; now we want the best science in the world”.

This incredible project has SETI drooling. To find out more about its planned research projects, check out this post from ATS' Telos www.abovetopsecret.com... who read through the ATS FOIA 15 page briefing doc ( foia.abovetopsecret.com...)

Personally, I think the world should focus on projects like this rather than all the BS money spent on weapons and crap.

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