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[gradschool]

See [1] for a funny nostalgic Australian movie about it titled "The Dish".

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/

[teractiveodular → gradschool]

Fun fact: there was a cafe at the Parkes visitor centre, inevitably called "The Dish".

https://maps.app.goo.gl/xe5Udu4HPkrt7hqL6

[wduquette → gradschool]

Different antenna, though from the same era.

[dcminter → wduquette]

Indeed, "The Dish" is about the Parkes⁰ radio telescope. Very fictional though :)

Tom Scott did a nice video¹ visiting it a little while back - as a vintage computing enthusiast I was rather pleased to see a PDP-11 in their equipment racks!

⁰ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkes_Observatory

¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o38C-ultvw