Getting a better ROI on science instruments!!


	Getting a better ROI on science instruments!!

Solar Child

8-20-2009 5:28 PM

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seti, allen telescope array, ata, atomic hydrogen, missing gaz

Solar Child says:

A telescope array to search for intelligent signal and does some science on the side at the same time.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5b4be5be-3807-4c1a-9a0c-900a6d558812/5600156C-3782-4419-9CE6-2C844AA0BE6A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17634-seti-telescope-array-produces-first-science-results.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17634" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17634-seti-telescope-array-produces-first-science-results.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17634" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17634-seti-telescope-array-produces-first-science-results.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17634"><H1>
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</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17634-seti-telescope-array-produces-first-science-results.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17634"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/5B7B628C-CF9B-428D-B3D4-154234B192EE" alt="The Allen Telescope Array can scan much of the sky in a short time, making it more likely to catch rare events like <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12699">mysterious bursts of radio waves</a> - or messages from aliens. A group at Berkeley recently completed a survey that watched the sky for bright radio flashes that don't line up with known objects and found a few candidates to follow up (Image: SETI Institute)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17634-seti-telescope-array-produces-first-science-results.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17634"><P class="lowlight">The Allen Telescope Array can scan much of the sky in a short time, making it more likely to catch rare events like <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12699">mysterious bursts of radio waves</A> - or messages from aliens. A group at Berkeley recently completed a survey that watched the sky for bright radio flashes that don't line up with known objects and found a few candidates to follow up (Image: SETI Institute)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17634-seti-telescope-array-produces-first-science-results.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17634"><P class="infuse">One question the ATA aims to answer is a mystery of missing gas. Star-forming regions don't seem to have enough molecular gas to keep up the star-formation rates we observe.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17634-seti-telescope-array-produces-first-science-results.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17634"><P class="infuse">"A telescope like the ATA is just a superb instrument. The fact that it can do astronomical and SETI work at the same time is really just icing on the cake," Tarter told <I>New Scientist</I>. "There's no other telescope that can do this."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17634-seti-telescope-array-produces-first-science-results.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17634"><P class="infuse">This is an improvement over the <A target="NS" href="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/">SETI@home</A> distributed computing project because it engages people's minds, not just their CPUs, she says.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5600156C-3782-4419-9CE6-2C844AA0BE6A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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