http://googlesightseeing.com/2009/01/26/the-very-large-array/ Why bother seeing the world for real? Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:32:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://googlesightseeing.com/2009/01/26/the-very-large-array/comment-page-1/#comment-204421 Capital Chay Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:57:07 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=4354#comment-204421 I don't know where my life would be without a Y-shaped radio astronomy observatory made up of 27 independent dish antennas, each dish being 25m across and weighing 209 tonnes that travel on train tracks which make up three 21km arms with specially designed locomotives that maneuver the antennas while providing the study of the sun, planets, black holes, pulsars, quasars and myriad other astronomical objects and costing only $78.5million. What can I say? I'm just high maintenance I guess. I don’t know where my life would be without a Y-shaped radio astronomy observatory made up of 27 independent dish antennas, each dish being 25m across and weighing 209 tonnes that travel on train tracks which make up three 21km arms with specially designed locomotives that maneuver the antennas while providing the study of the sun, planets, black holes, pulsars, quasars and myriad other astronomical objects and costing only $78.5million. What can I say? I’m just high maintenance I guess.

]]> http://googlesightseeing.com/2009/01/26/the-very-large-array/comment-page-1/#comment-204354 Cory Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:07:43 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=4354#comment-204354 I just visited the VLA on a trip to the southwest last summer. It was a fun stop. I just visited the VLA on a trip to the southwest last summer. It was a fun stop.

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