{"id":53479,"date":"2013-04-24T05:07:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T11:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=53479"},"modified":"2020-04-11T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T15:21:11","slug":"the-dish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=53479","title":{"rendered":"The Stanford Dish, Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dish is two things. For runners, it’s a 3.5 mile (roughly 5.6km) run through quiet and amidst beautiful rolling hills. The run would be pretty easy if not for the hills. No wheels are allowed in the park — you have to make your way using good ‘ole fashioned people power.<\/p>\n

For science geeks, these hills are home to the Stanford Dish a radio telescope built in 1966 to study the chemical composition of the atmosphere. Now it is used by NASA to communicate with spacecraft and satellites orbiting the Earth.<\/p>\n

The Dish isn’t the only artifact in the park. There are other devices — both old and modern. And, I suspect that there’s an underground facility under the hills that’s still being used. Periodically, I found ventilation shafts and water routing systems — both with clean, shiny locks. It made me think of the Stargate world<\/a>.<\/p>\n