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[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't know much about this telescope but fuck golfers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather not buttfuck golfers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

i'll take your share

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I'd you take a look at a satellite picture, most of the invaluable green space in urban areas is taken by rich golfing assholes and dead people.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We could do with less golfcourses. Especially in places where it's too hot for them to stay green in the summer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Make only the green have grass, everything else is rough weeds...insects and all. A real game of golf.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Everything I see a golf course I think the spaceccould be something useful. This case they deleted the useful. Such a waste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Every time I see a golf course I get the urge to do a praxis

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The land the radio telescope that first detected the microwave radiation from the big bang was in private ownership for the longest time. Luckily, it was just bought by the township to be converted into a public park with the telescope itself being preserved when the whole site was at risk of being "developed".

edit: Source: https://holmdel-cilu.org/holmdel-horn-antenna When they open, please visit the Antenna, eat something local and let people know why you came. Make sure the township knows it was a financially good thing that they're preserving it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To make room for a golf course... Yeees... definitely to make room for "a golf course", and abso-frigging-lutely not to prevent anymore transmission intercepts.

#tinfoilisagreathatmaterial

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

conspiracy is always an easy answer. But overall I agree, it was despicable to raze it for any motif

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Golf courses use more water as agriculture. They are truly the worse thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Is this legit? Not really.

But fuck golf courses? Yeah fuck golf courses.

You earn an up vote.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

If this bothers you you can signup to make a monthly donation to SETI.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A bit of over exaggerating in the title (as per usual.) The frequency used is one that we would consider a good candidate for listening for alien signals.

That doesn't mean the wow signal had anything to do with extra terrestrial technology.

The article is decent, and covers a bit of the tech used in the radio telescope, but the parts about the alien signals are just pure speculation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There is no non-intelligent actor explanation for it known at this time that accounts for the data. Which leaves us with 3 options

  1. Someone was breaking the rules and breaking the rules in a really weird way.

  2. Something happens in astronomy which we don't yet understand

  3. Aliens

Now I don't think 3 is very likely, at all. Especially the way the events happened.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I thought for sure this was going to be Owen Wilson.