writes East Asia News

http://sglinks.com/pages/69621365-china-displaces-nearly-10-000-humans-for-huge-telescope-in

on 17 Feb '16, 12am

BEIJING (AFP) - China will move nearly 10,000 people to make way for the world's largest radio telescope which promises to help humanity search for alien life, state media reported on Tuesday. The 500-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), nestled between hills in the southwestern province of Guizhou, is due to start operation this year. Provincial officials have vowed to relocate 9,110 residents living within 5km of the listening device by September, the official Xinhua news agency said. The relocations will "create a sound electromagnetic wave environment", it cited a top regional official named Li Yuecheng as saying. Residents will receive 12,000 yuan (S$2,590) in subsidies for their troubles, with some getting extra support for housing, it said. FAST, built at a cost of 1.2 billion yuan, will dwarf the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico ...

More:

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-displaces-nearly-10000-humans-for-huge-telescope-in-search-for-aliens

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Presently it looks like this:

Arecibo observatory in Puertorico, home of decades of useless search for extraterrestrials looks like this:

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China's Area 51

Editor's Note: While this story has gone viral and has been picked up by the main stream media, we want to thank the brave Chinese woman who sent this to viewzone and also to Haisheng Liu, who translated the text for us. With all the speculation we remind readers that the images and coordinates provided to viewzone were accompanied by an explanation. That's probably the smartest place to start.

Haisheng Liu for viewzone.com

I was asked to translate a recent submission to viewzone that contained the following images, taken from the google-earth program. Of course I checked the archives to be sure they are correct and noted the GPS coordinates so anyone can confirm that these things are real.

More:

http://www.viewzone.com/china51.html

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