I took a ride on a moving radio telescope

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I love that they still used pdp 11s at least a year ago great computers insane they are still running 50 years on

Theres a mini door you could open with steps at the bottom 😂

Didn't someone make a rotating house?And they could make the wires like the rotating house thingDidn't someone make a rotating house? And they could make the wires like the rotating house thing.

The apple xserve in the rack is a nice touch

In 1977 I "rode the dish" at the old 27m incoherent-scatter radar located in Chatanica Alaska – its a very intersting experience – it was controlled by both a DEC PDP-8 and an SDS-930 computer – both had real hand-wired core memory – since 1981 it was moved to Greenland where it is still in operation but with more modern computing facilities.

how much do those cost?

that is so cool! the engineering behind that is mesmerizing

You didn’t stay up there

Man they put popcorn texturing on everything in the 70s.

and now that its angled down its true purpose as a death laser can be revealed

Next time you should try to ride a bike when it's moving on top of the disc

IRL voices of the void

It's funny, I "knew" that the Parkes radio telescope was one of the largest radio telescopes in the world, but I didn't quite process that until I saw Tom standing not just on it, but on it at ground level when it was tilted all the way to the side.

No way

This is a very cool video, love this, just love the fact that Tom is actually taking a ride on a moving radio telescope, its crazy. Also radio telescopes seem somewhat interesting to me for some reason. Either that or I love technology, at least for the space category!

Don’t these have like radiation or am I trippin?

Its a titanfall 2 reference guys