In article <Xns96BCB41A5CB26askifyouwantitŽ.77.188.18> Doc Smartass
<gekiskivviesdo@astroboyskivviesmail.com> writes:

I read about this in the latest "Scientific American" and was wowed
by the low-tech approach the science wonks are using: 10 thousand $20
TV antennas and 320 old PC's running Linux. The Primeval Structure
Telescope (PaST) antennas are arrayed in lines up to 3 km long.

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:te6Il0_uuwsJ:arxiv.org/pdf/astro-
ph/0502029+China+%22PAsT%22+array&hl=en

Or

http://tinyurl.com/ad6yc

for the abstract.

Oh, that's just too funny. I mean it's cool,
very cool... but it's also funny, because:
Here at Steward Mirror Lab we've been
making mirrors for successively larger
and larger telescopes. And the superlatives
for the formal names are starting to run out
(Large Bionocular Telescope, Giant Magellen
Telescope...) At some point some grad
students put together a poster touting
the Super Huge Interference Telescope,
or some similarly scatological acronym --
and on the poster you saw dozens and
dozens of those little telescopes
you used to be able to buy from
Edmond (?) -- the little spherical
jobbies with the tube sticking out
fo the top -- a huge array of them,
all lined up out in the parking lot.