Technology|July 14, 2011 10:35 pm

SKA radio telescope to pump out more data than the internet in 2020, spot ALF before he lands

Unfortunately for Desmond Dekker fans, this SKA telescope has zero to do with a Jamaican song sensation. No, a Square Kilometer Array (SKA) air wave telescope has most some-more illusory concerns, as good as according to a executive of a International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Peter Quinn, it should have a internet kick in conditions of interpretation when it goes online in 2020. The telescope, which will finish up in possibly Australia, New Zealand, or South Africa, is directed during acid for Earth-like planets, supernatural life, dim matter, as good as black holes, as good as will need a executive supercomputer with “the estimate energy of a single billion PCs.” What’s more, it is approaching to be 10,000 times some-more absolute than any telescope in life as good as “generate a same volume of interpretation in a day as a complete world does in a year.” We contend anything which gets us closer to carrying a really own hairy, Hawaiian-shirt sporting visitor upon palm is good value a $2.1 billion it will price to create. Willy!

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