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Aug 2, 2008

Drowning out the cosmos

In the late 1930's Grote Reber, a radio amateur in Wheaton, Illinois, built the first purpose-built radio telescope: a nine metre dish with a state of the art radio receiver.

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Monday Aug 18
 
another Observatory too important not to protect from developers in North America

Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory

http://www.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/drao/index_...

1st the Dunlop University of Toronto Richmond Hill York Region GTA Ontario now

Re: proposed residential land development near the White Lake Observatory: Every resident of the RDOS should be extremely alarmed at the possibility that ill-considered and short sighted land development will ...

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Tuesday Aug 19
 
Canada wrote:
another Observatory too important not to protect from developers in North America
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory
http://www.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/drao/index_...
1st the Dunlop University of Toronto Richmond Hill York Region GTA Ontario now
Re: proposed residential land development near the White Lake Observatory: Every resident of the RDOS should be extremely alarmed at the possibility that ill-considered and short sighted land development will ...
http://www.topix.net/world/canada/2008/08/ano...
What do you think we don't already know about the universe?
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