Orcaporka - Slashdot User

Comment anon (Score 1) 621

by Orcaporka on Sunday March 30, 2008 @09:37AM (#22911342) Attached to: Griefers Assault Epileptics Via Message Board

It is anonymous as you people think of them. They just thought it would be funny to do it simple as that. Before this whole scientology debacle people would accept this as anonymous. Remeber these are the same people who did the bomb threats to football stadiums/

Jodrell Bank May Close Down 53

Posted by kdawson on Thursday March 06, 2008 @06:15PM from the not-just-pulsars dept.

Anonymous Astronomer writes "MERLIN, the UK's only radio astronomy facility, is facing closure following the results of a Programmatic Review carried out by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, the results of which were announced on Monday. The review placed MERLIN and the upgraded telescope e-MERLIN, due to go online later this year following an investment of £8M, in the low-priority category under serious threat of funding cuts. The upgraded array of telescopes, situated across the UK, will be 30 times more sensitive than the current array and will be a unique facility for observing distant objects and helping us understand the universe. If these cuts go ahead however, not only MERLIN but the entire Observatory including the iconic Lovell telescope, based at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, will be under threat of closure."

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