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China is building the world's largest radio telescope to detect signs of life billions of light years away
The 500-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is being built in China. With a dish the size of 30 football fields, it will be the largest radio telescope in the world when it is completed in 2016. Its unique design will allow scientists to gather radio signals from tens of billions of light years away.
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Every time I'm like China really needs to get its priorities straight and save their environment they go and do something awesome like this.
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