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Old 19-02-2024, 11:40 PM
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Take a ride on the Dish

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Tom Scott -

I took a ride on a moving radio telescope
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The Parkes Radio Telescope, Murriyang, part of CSIRO, is one of the most famous telescopes in the world: and it's got a unique way of getting equipment up and down from the central section.
https://www.facebook.com/tomscott/vi...1162467704614/

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Old 20-02-2024, 08:55 AM
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https://www.facebook.com/tomscott/vi...1162467704614/

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And you are correct Allan, I did like it
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Old 20-02-2024, 03:40 PM
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I got to go up through the middle way back in the '60s

As a high school kid I hitched from Sydney, walked out from Parkes, and got to see the dish start to loom over the landscape.

It was all so new that me just rocking up to the door and saying I loved astronomy and could I have a look was fine.

I was taken up through the middle, and I remember the alignment telescope and poking my head up through the hatch- I wasn't allowed out, and my guide held onto my pants leg just in case. No "Riding the Dish" for me.

Then I was told to "Bugger off and don't tell everyone else ços we've got work to do".

I don't even know who was there now.

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Old 20-02-2024, 06:21 PM
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And you are correct Allan, I did like it



Good - he was very lucky to get a tour of that dish.
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