I doubt then there will be any American participation in this project. Jerry
________________________________ From: John Frewen-Lord <j...@frewston.plus.com> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 2:22:17 AM Subject: [USMA:44782] SKA If there is any doubt that we live in a metric world, BBC news today has an article on a new radio telescope array just being commissioned. The article goes on to tell about an even newer array currently being planned: The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will be based in either Australia or South Africa, will link thousands of telescopes spread over thousands of kilometres, creating a system 50-times more powerful than anything we have now. The full article can be read at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7828174.stm Cheers John F-L
