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SKA bids go in: decision to come next year

Summary: Australia and New Zealand have handed in their written proposal that lays out why the nations should be chosen to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the continent-sized radio telescope.

Suzanne Tindal

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(Credit: SPDO/TDP/DRAO/Swinburne Astronomy Productions, CC3.0)

An artist's impression of the dishes.

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Topics: Government, Government AU

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Suzanne Tindal cut her teeth at ZDNet.com.au as the site's telecommunications reporter, a role that saw her break some of the biggest stories associated with the National Broadband Network process. She then turned her attention to all matters in government and corporate ICT circles. Now she's taking on the whole gamut as news editor for the site.

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  • bah! I dont want this silly things littering my desert and what is this for? finding alien life? cant people just use current and existing radio telescope technology to do this? what are the productively benefits for this? has anyone done a cost benefit analysis?
    Hubert Cumberdale
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    • Either five people didn't get the joke, or they agree with the views you claimed to espouse...

      Still grinning about the Cost Benefit Analysis! (Yeah Malcolm, why not?)
      Gwyntaglaw
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