https://www.scmp.com/rss/326065/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Last January, the Chinese Academy of Sciences invited Liu Cixin, China’s pre-eminent science-fiction writer, to visit its new state-of-the-art radio dish in the country’s southwest. Almost twice as wide as the dish at America’s Arecibo Observatory, in the Puerto Rican jungle, the Chinese dish, named Fast (the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope), is the largest in the world, if not the universe. Though it is sensitive enough to detect spy satellites even when they’re not... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2124495/china-could-make-first-contact-aliens-would?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2124495/china-could-make-first-contact-aliens-would?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Dec 2017 05:18:46 +0000