{"id":13488,"date":"2024-12-02T16:34:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T23:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13488"},"modified":"2024-12-07T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:36:06","slug":"the-vera-rubin-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/12\/02\/the-vera-rubin-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vera Rubin Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

How do you know what you\u2019re not allowed to see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ross Andersen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Olivier Bonin \/ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the early months of 2023, the astronomer \u017deljko Ivezi\u0107 found himself taking part in a highly unusual negotiation. Ivezi\u0107 is the 59-year-old director of the Vera Rubin Observatory, a $1 billion telescope that the United States has been developing in the Chilean high desert for more than 20 years. He was trying to reach an agreement that would keep his telescope from compromising America\u2019s national security when it starts stargazing next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This task was odd enough for any scientist, and it was made more so by the fact that Ivezi\u0107 had no idea with whom he was negotiating. \u201cI didn\u2019t even know which agency I was talking to,\u201d he told me on a recent video call from his field office in Chile. Whoever it was would communicate with him only through intermediaries at the National Science Foundation. Ivezi\u0107 didn\u2019t even know whether one person or several people were on the other side of the exchange. All he knew was that they were very security-minded. Also, they seemed to know a great deal about astronomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from The Atlantic When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk How do you know what you\u2019re not allowed to see? By\u00a0Ross Andersen In the early months of 2023, the astronomer \u017deljko Ivezi\u0107 found himself taking part in a highly unusual negotiation. Ivezi\u0107 is the 59-year-old director of the Vera Rubin Observatory, a $1 billion telescope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}