China is due (in 2016) to complete a pivotable, movable radio telescope a half kilometer across inside a giant dish shaped depression in a remote region of China. Not only does it dwarf Arecibo, but IT CAN POINT DIRECTLY AT DESIRED TARGETS IN SPACE. Arecibo may be powerful, but it only has one direction, straight up. This limits what it can accomplish significantly. China's will be more than vastly superior, it will be in a different league.
Question: How can China build a radio telescope that has approximately three times the surface area of Arecibo, in a configuration that moves to point anywhere? Hmm, Ask Hillary, I am sure she helped with all those great technology transfers, at the same time America was thrown into a stupor with "common core" to make sure the little kiddies in America never do even an Arecibo again.
Yep, the Chinese will probably be able to point that thing at the setting or rising moon and pick up reflected military communications from America. What good are satellites for spying when you have something like that anyway?
JIM STONE
Question: How can China build a radio telescope that has approximately three times the surface area of Arecibo, in a configuration that moves to point anywhere? Hmm, Ask Hillary, I am sure she helped with all those great technology transfers, at the same time America was thrown into a stupor with "common core" to make sure the little kiddies in America never do even an Arecibo again.
Yep, the Chinese will probably be able to point that thing at the setting or rising moon and pick up reflected military communications from America. What good are satellites for spying when you have something like that anyway?
JIM STONE