{"id":10703,"date":"2012-05-25T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/update-3-giant-telescope-to-explore-far-reaches-of-cosmos\/"},"modified":"2012-05-25T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T20:02:08","slug":"update-3-giant-telescope-to-explore-far-reaches-of-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-giant-telescope-to-explore-far-reaches-of-cosmos\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Giant telescope to explore far reaches of cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* To be sited in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Scientists reject charge of political expediency<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Will track unexplored areas of cosmos<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Chris Wickham and Sara Webb<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON\/AMSTERDAM, May 25 (Reuters) &#8211; The world&#8217;s biggest and<br \/>\nmost advanced radio telescope, capable of detecting signs of<br \/>\nextraterrestrial life in the far reaches of the universe, will<br \/>\nbe located in South Africa, Australia  and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The decision to split the location of the $2 billion &#8220;Square<br \/>\nKilometre Array&#8221; followed intense lobbying by the two leading<br \/>\nbidders, South Africa one side and a joint bid from Australia<br \/>\nand New Zealand on the other.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Scientists leading the project rejected the suggestion that<br \/>\nthe decision, which will mean higher costs, meant science had<br \/>\ntaken a back seat to political expediency.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t deny there is a political aspect to the process<br \/>\nbecause when you are spending very large amounts of public<br \/>\nmoney, politicians are going to be interested,&#8221; said John<br \/>\nWomersley, Chair of the Board of Directors of the SKA<br \/>\norganisation.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However the decision we took is scientifically motivated,<br \/>\nwhich in no way compromises the scientific capabilities,&#8221; he<br \/>\nsaid on Friday.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* To be sited in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand * Scientists reject charge of political expediency * Will track unexplored areas of cosmos By Chris Wickham and Sara Webb LONDON\/AMSTERDAM, May 25 (Reuters) &#8211; The world&#8217;s biggest and most advanced radio telescope, capable of detecting signs of extraterrestrial life in the far reaches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}