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Offline ThaDood

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West Virginia's Green Bank Rf Telescope gets a TX upgrade!
« on: February 01, 2021, 2016 UTC »
https://public.nrao.edu/news/successful-test-new-planetary-radar/    Seen this on the SWL'ing Post. Ever been there for a tour? It's well worth it! Especially, if you can get a scientist to lead the tour. (Hint-hint..) Don't request the interns to do it.   
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I was asked, yet another weird question, of how I would like to be buried, when I finally bite the big one. The answer was actually pretty easy. Face-down, like a certain historical figure in the late 1980's, (I will not mention who, but some of you will get it, and that's enough.) Why??? It would be a burial that will satisfy everyone: (1) My enemies will say that it will show me where to go. (2) On the same point, I can have my enemies kiss my butt. (3) It will temporarily give someone a place to park a bicycle. See??? A WIN / WIN for everyone.

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Re: West Virginia's Green Bank Rf Telescope gets a TX upgrade!
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2021, 2050 UTC »
It's in the National Radio Quiet Zone. Turn off your radios (all of them) when you enter the zone.

It would be really cool if the radar had enough resolution to see the base of the Apollo lander that was left behind and the "dune buggy" the astronauts used (for the first time in the Apollo program) while on the moon surface.
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Re: West Virginia's Green Bank Rf Telescope gets a TX upgrade!
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2021, 1830 UTC »
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I was asked, yet another weird question, of how I would like to be buried, when I finally bite the big one. The answer was actually pretty easy. Face-down, like a certain historical figure in the late 1980's, (I will not mention who, but some of you will get it, and that's enough.) Why??? It would be a burial that will satisfy everyone: (1) My enemies will say that it will show me where to go. (2) On the same point, I can have my enemies kiss my butt. (3) It will temporarily give someone a place to park a bicycle. See??? A WIN / WIN for everyone.
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