"...a 31-foot paraboloid dish that could focus a range of radio wavelengths... No one in Wheaton had ever seen anything like it."
I wonder how many paraboloids there are in Wheaton now (or have they all switched to digital TV already?)
"I was delighted to learn that the good citizens of Wheaton have installed a historical marker on the site..."
...probably because of folks like you asking, "What in hell have you people done with Reber's backyard?!"
In historical terms, it's amazing to think that in thirty years, we went from Reber mapping the Crab Nebula and what would later be called Sagittarius A to finding quasars, the cosmic microwave background, and pulsars. This is a comparable jump to that of people messing about with Crookes tubes to discovering the positron, the neutron, and induced radioactivity.
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I wonder how many paraboloids there are in Wheaton now (or have they all switched to digital TV already?)
"I was delighted to learn that the good citizens of Wheaton have installed a historical marker on the site..."
...probably because of folks like you asking, "What in hell have you people done with Reber's backyard?!"
In historical terms, it's amazing to think that in thirty years, we went from Reber mapping the Crab Nebula and what would later be called Sagittarius A to finding quasars, the cosmic microwave background, and pulsars. This is a comparable jump to that of people messing about with Crookes tubes to discovering the positron, the neutron, and induced radioactivity.