Saturday, January 26, 2008

My brother in Mexico

He is a Brazilian Astrophysicist, and he reports from Mexico:


Hoje fui a um radiotelescópio gigante (50m de diâmetro!) que está em fase final de construção no alto de numa montanha a 4600m de altitude. Fantástico! E o lugar ainda fica do lado de um vulcão de 5700m de altura, o mais alto do México.

Which means: he visited this near-completion giant radiotelescope on a mountain near the highest volcano in Mexico! (I will not atttempt to convert from the metric units, but I will give readers a hint: Mt. Everest is approx. 8800 m.)
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