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China’s giant spherical radio telescope began operating

China Architecture News - Sep 25, 2016 - 18:09   11966 views

China’s giant spherical radio telescope began operating

When hundreds of engineers and builders began clambering up a jagged hill in southwest China to assemble a giant telescope in a deep, bowl-shaped basin, poor villagers sometimes crept over the sheer slopes to glimpse the country’s latest technological wonder.

“We’ve never seen anything like it, never imagined it,” said one of the villagers, Huang Zhangrong, a sun-gnarled 66-year-old carpenter. “It’s a big circle, a big iron wok.”.....Continue Reading

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