FAST: The World's Largest Telescope | A China Icons Video

What's really out there? On Sunday 25th September 2016, China will unveil the world’s largest telescope and begin test operations searching for signals to understand the origin of the universe and the Big Bang. The Five-Hundred-Metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, known as FAST has been constructed over five years in a remote area of Guizhou province, south central China. It has been built in a 45 million year old crater, unlikely to be affected by flooding and far from human interference. The 500m dish surpasses Arecibo radio telescope, built in Puerto Rico in 1963, as the world’s largest and is three times more sensitive in detecting radio waves thousands of light years away. FAST consists of 4450 individual panels and Chinese project engineers had to design a cable net of ten thousand cables to manipulate it to detect signals. FAST’s focus cabin is also unique thanks to a directional tracking system. A key mission for the telescope will be detecting pulsars, the matter that remains when a star eight times the size of the sun explodes. These pulsars rotate thousands of times per second and are the universe’s most accurate clock. Experience the construction and meet the creators of FAST: The World's Largest Telescope For more insights and guides to China, SUBSCRIBE to China Icons. Join in the conversation on our Facebook site www.facebook.com/ChinaIcons Get the latest news as it happens from our Twitter page https://twitter.com/chinaicons We're also on Instagram! Follow us for exclusive behind-the-scenes photography and more. www.instagram.com/china_icons Remember to check out our official website too which has our brand new blog! www.chinaicons.com

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1. Very impressive and beautiful work of engineering. Congratulations on the successful completion of the project! Also thank you China Icons for providing subtitles to all the speakers in the video.
2. "thousands of light years away at the edge of the universe" . You clearly have no idea of how big the universe is
3. WELL IT WILL NOT LAST LONG.... MAYBE 5 YEARS FROM NOW, BECAUSE ITS MADE IN CHINA.
4. Chinese people are sooooo brilliant and hard workers.
5. outstanding engineering
6. Observing Gods design is incredible!
7. Is it works?
8. Professor NaN: "Not a Number"
9. While our bridges roads cities towns and infrastructure crumbles beneath us the real fascists who usurped our government sold off our jobs and technologies to China , Mexico, Germany , etc sell us the goods that WE SHOULD BE MANUFACTURING AND BUYING IN AMERICA!! from raw materials that we have shipped to China etc only to have them shipped back in cheap inferior goods in mass sucking the last penny out of every American ..and what do we get back...China builds monumental works, state of the art scientific technologies, dams, roads cities infrastructure, and we can't even fund or have a viable space crafted to get too the very space station we created..when a nation stops going forward in its betterment and starts regressing that means that nation is in collapse. We have so many traitors that should be HUNG or PUT UP AGAINST A WALL AND EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON IN THIS COUNTRY ITS NOT FUNNY ANYMORE. Thye MSM is nothing but weaponized propaganda brainwashing Americans , demoralizing, and defeating us with diabolical evil subliminal programming WHICH IS VERY REAL!! China pushes patriotism in their media ..American media pushes nothing good but everything bad about us and our nation including some of the most disgusting vile and immoral shit only a invading alien force should be proud of..and then we have these losers in big cities they call themselves liberal living in their bubbles fighting the one man who put it all on the line to fight back for the people and to restore America to its former glory ..the MSM propaganda is now undermining his rightful win and his supporters inciting hate and division even calling for his death and they are programming sick minded people who are weak and demented in hopes of having him executed or assassinated because he is on the brink of taking them all down..this conspiracy is so deep so diabolical so large that Eisenhower tried to warn us but I do not even believe he knew how bad it would get. Americans better wake up and start getting back to nationalism ..or you and your children will be nolonger Americans you'll will be speaking Chinese ... GOD BLESS AMERICA!! and GOD BLESS PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP!! IN JESUS NAME GIVE HIM ALL 8 YEARS to put America back in shape..this is it America this is it..after him we either will go forward or will will ultimately collapse..such a shame...we are even at this point..DO NOT BELIEVE THE MEDIA, STAY AWAY FROM SICK TWISTED ENTERTAINMENT, SUPPORT PATRIOTS AND AMERICA FIRST AGENDA, READ AMERICAN HISTORY , EAT GOOD, STAY AWAY FROM GMO AND PHARMACEUTICALS, LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS BUT ALWAYS STRIVE TO MAKE THAT EXTRA BUCK, BE WELL INFORMED and WELL RESEARCHED!! and get involved by doing your part to MAGA we have alot of work to do. The president needs our help..do your part to support him..we won the main battle by electing him but the war has just begun.. The answer to 1984 is 1776 ...
10. i am pakistani china zindabad
11. Battlefield....
12. Lmao this only cost $180 million to build. The same amount as one F-35 shitty fighter plane. Why not get rid of just one teeny tiny plane and the US could build one of these.
13. welcome alliens
14. Thousands of light years near the edge of the universe ? And they Re using quantum leap in a stupid and wrong way
15. Neat story. Just stop using apostrophes where they don't belong. It makes you look severely stupid.
16. I love China they're the only people that are true to theirselves
17. no telescope ever built by man WILL NEVER EVER see the 3 x 3 ft flags on the moon from earth or earth orbit..case closed..
    IMPOSSIBLE..do the simple math or the simple research..it would take a 10 mile long telescope
18. the ABSOLUTE SMALLEST THING webb could EVER SEE on the moon is a 100 sq
    meter pixel.. no matter the optics or instruments package EVER BUILT in
    another 1000 years.. it COULD NEVER see the 3 x 3 ft flags.. NEVER..no
    optics package or instruments will ever help it do so.. DO THE MATH...
    IMPOSSIBLE..
    do the math..if youre smart enough to do simple multiplication
19. Despite China's shortcomings in other areas, THIS is what happens when the "smartest" and "most efficient" people in the world (I'm going by the common Chinese stereotypes that westerners so love to use in their movies, comedies and mockeries) do something!
20. There are many big earthquakes in China; hopefully FAST will survive long into the future for many discoveries.