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The Cultural Value of Radio Astronomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

Woodruff T. Sullivan III
Woodruff T. Sullivan III*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy Box 351580 Univ. of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 USA woody@astro.washington.edu

Abstract

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In order to compete successfully in the marketplace of the radio spectrum radio astronomers must appeal not to economic gain, but to the cultural value of their enterprise. In the real world this can be problematic, but it is not hopeless. This paper gives arguments why radio astronomy, no less than astronomy as a whole, has great cultural value whether considered from an environmental or an intellectual point of view.

Type
Part 5. Outreach
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 196: Preserving the Astronomical Sky , 2001 , pp. 369 - 376
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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