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##BIGAstronomy: ELT Chile progress. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 15 July 2023

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##BIGAstronomy: ELT Chile progress. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/extremely-large-telescope-in-chile-marks-halfway-point-in-construction/

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Behind the Black 13 years of commenting on the growth of commercial space

0:39.2

and the shutdown of big space or at least the abridging of big space.

0:43.4

Part of that story is big astronomy as well.

0:45.4

Bob, what is Eris Sibo? What's happened?

0:48.2

The Eris Sibo radio telescope, as you might remember, John, crashed.

0:53.2

It was in really crashing.

0:54.6

Well, it's in Tana Crass on top of the,

0:57.6

the antenna itself a few years ago.

0:59.2

It basically became defunct.

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It wasn't maintained properly by the National Science Foundation

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and the National Science Foundation really wanted to get rid of it anyway

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