Talk:Square Kilometre Array

message: "The SKA is a global collaboration of 20 countries which will revolutionise our understanding of the Universe by providing answers to fundamental questions about its origin and evolution."
Looks like advertising to me. To state this prediction as a fact is not encyclopedia-like. Such a prediction I think should only be included if several peer reviewed articles would proof that these results would be inevitable, and then some. 
Will change to 
"The SKA is a global collaboration of 20 countries which may provide answers to fundamental questions about its origin and evolution."
This still needs citation I guess, maybe it can be removed altogether. ABMvandeBult (talk) 11:44, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Good call, in my opinion. --Pgallert (talk) 13:53, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bold statement 

message: This article describes a huge world-wide project which still is in its planning stage. It's natural that statements about the goals and results are impossible to verify until the telescopes is in full operation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rainer Beck (talk • contribs) 19:57, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doesn't fit in an encyclopedia ? 

message: Given the considerable scope and participation of this project, I have raised the article's importance to WP:Astronomy to mid. If the claims made by its designers prove to be true or if more independent sources emerge supporting their claims, I think we should raise the importance to high. --User:DiscipleOfKnowledge (talk)  03:00, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Re-assessed article importance to mid

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message: http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/research/ska/
http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/prepska/
http://www.skatelescope.ca/
http://www.ska-aavp.eu/
http://www.ska.ac.za/
http://www.ska.gov.au/
http://www.haystack.mit.edu/ast/arrays/ska/index.html
The info found at the above sites leads me to suspect that the press releases quoted are not all that grandiose.
Probably will have to wait until 2024 to find out if it works as advertised. Meanwhile, we already have large scale radiotelescope observatories. The background at end of the movie, "Contact", was filmed at the Very Large Array observatory in New Mexico. It is easy to spot in maps.google.com between Socorro and the Arizona border. Then there's the Very Large Baseline Array, a virtual radio telescope from Hawaii to the Virgin Islands. http://www.nrao.edu/
The digital signal processing interferometry used to combine the signals from all of those telescopes already works. SKA is simply enlarging existing technology, just as the enormous level of detail gained between binoculars and the Hubbel Telescope.
Also note: http://www.lofar.org/
Hpfeil (talk) 20:18, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  skatelescope.org broken link, project is alive and well at the University of Manchester. 

message: Link to SKA brochure in Reference 2 is broken: This is the correct link: http://www.skatelescope.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/SKA-Brochure_July_2012_web.pdf
Also there is a notice in the SKA website that they will update their site, so this link may become invalid again soon.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Misaeljoelvera (talk • contribs) 04:43, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  broken link to Reference #2, The SKA brochure 

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message: This is from the SKA website, but it doesn't seem to make sense. Maybe somebody conflated two studies? 
A protostar may have something resembling a protoplanet not that's an exoplanet not likely to have life on it. Kortoso  (talk) 22:14, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protostars and habitable zones? 

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message: I removed this edit adding a link to a self-published book which I believe cannot be said to be notable. It was added by a single-purpose user promoting the author's books. Haakon (talk) 19:54, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
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message: Other sites use the SKAO acronym, which is the correct one?
135.0.44.102 (talk) 18:34, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The article says "On 12 March 2019, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) consortium was founded in Rome by seven initial member countries", and SKAO redirects here at the moment. SKA seems to be used with reference to this particular project. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 22:46, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Exactly. SKAO is the organization, SKA is the project. (usually referred to the observation sites in AUS ad South Africa); same as ESO is the organization in Garching, while the observatory(es) are in Chile. As Laterthanyouthink said and as the ESO page says, there's no reason to create a new page (for now) only for the organization.-- Windino [Rec] 13:50, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  SKA or SKAO 

message: The Register has an interesting article on "first light" on SKAMPI, one of the prototype systems for the SKA. According to this, SKAMPI is a single-dish test system for SKA-Mid, and this source calls it the "SKA-MPIfR telescope", with MPIfR apparently being an intialism for the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie). This seems significant enough to mention it on Wikipedia. Which article should this go in? — The Anome (talk) 08:15, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  SKAMPI first light