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A major share of "the prize" is given to a country with no real background in radio astronomy, with significant political risk and very significant internal security problems, and which had a major technical failure with the SALT telescope.
That country is not Australia!
I just knew that they were going to give it to S.A. in order to "help the underprivileged"
In contrast, as we all know, Australia is equal-second in the world in Radio Astronomy (with the Netherlands), and it has a long history of successful radio astronomy projects..... with a lot of first-rate professional radio astronomers many of whom also know how to design and build equipment.
Optical astronomy was always significant in South Africa, but never radio astronomy.
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