Can’t see the data for the trees...
Yet another over the top pi**ing contest multi-govt project - 8.8 terabyte of data per second from each dish x 130,000 of the beggars - how much of this data is actually going to be professionally analysed/used ? Surely it would be better to go for lower amount of quality based data rather than going for an all out scatter gun approach and trying to grab all the information in the observable universe. Heck, for the humongous amount of money potentially to be spent on this project (think hardware, data management, staff, logistic and political costs), what about about being truly forward thinking and setting up a radio dish array on a smaller scale on the far side of the moon as has been proposed for a while - probably would work out cheaper and get proper research quality data on a useable scale - better get Elon Musk in on the job !
Biting the hand that feeds IT
