{"id":22542,"date":"2016-02-21T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/china-relocating-thousands-to-build-record-size-telescope"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:51:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:51:21","slug":"china-relocating-thousands-to-build-record-size-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/china-relocating-thousands-to-build-record-size-telescope","title":{"rendered":"China relocating thousands to build record-size telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-relocating-thousands-to-build-record-size-telescope.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This story reminds me of the building of ancient pyramids in Egypt as well as the building of ancient temples and cities in Mexico and India.<\/p>\n<p>China has relocated 9K people to build their new giant telescope \u2014 in 2000 years from now the robots and Ray Kurzweil (who plans never to die) will be looking at the ancient telescope. And, Ray (the grand earth historian) can tell them all about the process and the reason why it was built.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-relocating-thousands-to-build-record-size-telescope.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"china-extraterrestrial-seeking-mega-telescope\" \/> The Chinese government plans to relocate some 9,000 people to make space for the world\u2019s largest radio telescope. Photo: ChinaPhotoPress.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/thespacereporter.com\/2016\/02\/china-relocating-thousands-build-record-size-telescope\/\">https:\/\/thespacereporter.com\/2016\/02\/china-relocating-thousa...telescope\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story reminds me of the building of ancient pyramids in Egypt as well as the building of ancient temples and cities in Mexico and India. China has relocated 9K people to build their new giant telescope \u2014 in 2000 years from now the robots and Ray Kurzweil (who plans never to die) will be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2018,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62732,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22542\/revisions\/62732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}