Every few days, a messenger would bike over from "The Big Ear, " Ohio State's giant radio telescope in Delaware, Ohio, and hand Jerry computer records of sounds coming in from deep space.

每隔几天，就有人从“大耳朵”（俄亥俄州立大学的巨型射线望远镜）骑自行车过来，并交给他由外太空传来的声波的电脑记录。

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In one case, the telescope was orbiting over Egypt, but the TGFs it detected came from an active storm in Zambia, a good 1,800 miles south.

有一次，望远镜运行到埃及上空，却探测到了来自赞比亚，这个正南方1800公里远的地方的一片活跃的雷暴的TGF信号。

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The Fermi Space Telescope is so sensitive to these gamma ray bursts that it doesn't even need to be positioned right over a thunderstorm to detect the TGFs.

费米太空望远镜对这些伽马射线脉冲很灵敏，以至于它甚至不需要调整位置对准雷暴的正上方，就能来探测TGF信号。

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Similarly, long-term sky surveys and supernova searches can be done with a zenith-pointing telescope: over the course of a year, the telescope can observe an entire band of the sky.

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We enjoyed a World Wide Telescope fly-over of Iceland, the time-lapse photographs from a SenseCam worn by his collaborator, Microsoft's Tim Regan, as he delivered material to the venue and some of the astonishing maps Eric Fischer makes by plotting the location data from Flickr photographs of major cities, along with some astonishing data visualisations.

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To do so, it will take 400 one-gigabyte snaps a night for 525 nights over five years (the remaining telescope time will be split between other science projects).

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