[amsat-bb] Re: Fwd: Save Jodrell Bank

[Jeff Mock]

This is a really sad state of affairs.  I've been doing engineering work 
for the Arecibo observatory for several years and it's taken a beating 
on funding and seems to always be under a cloud of a partial shutdown.

These are both fantastic basic science facilities and it would be a 
shame to lose either one.  Single antenna terrestrial radio astronomy 
seems to be falling into funding cracks for on good reason other than it 
lacks the glamor of a big space launch.  This facilities will continue 
to be very important until something like the SKA can replace them.

jeff
AD6EO


John Heaton wrote:
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> Please read either the AMSAT-UK website or The Times Online for  
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>> Please sign this petition to save Jodrell Bank.
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>> http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/jodrellfunding/
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> Bye for now, John
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> AMSAT-UK: http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/637/68/
> Times-Online article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/ 
> science/article3492504.ece
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