Machines Pensantes

The Steward Observatory Mirror Lab at the University of Arizona is spin-casting the world’s largest telescope mirror : the Giant Magellan Telescope…

 

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> Steward Observatory : http://bit.ly/16HSBoF

> Kurzweil : http://bit.ly/1dlrtFA

 

Via Serge Meunier

 

 

A new petascale supercomputer built to study the universe is one of the fastest calculating machines in the world, and certainly the fastest of its kind. The supercomputer is part of ALMA, a new radio telescope that is claimed to be “largest ground-based astronomical project in existence”. The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) radio telescope is a collection of 66 high-precision antennas…

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> Alma Radio Telescope : http://bit.ly/W33ktl
> Wiki/Llano de Chajnantor Observatory : http://bit.ly/10DQXSZ

 

Via Serge Meunier