<div dir="ltr">I<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> thought of another reason for picking M87, it's located near the equator so radio telescopes in both hemispheres can see it but the center of the Milky Way can only be seen in the southern hemisphere. The resolution they achieved is really amazing, it's equivalent to reading the date on a dime in Los Angeles from New York. Another record they achieved is the fastest data transfer when they put several tons of state of the art hard drives on a 747 and flew them across the atlantic.</font></span><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark </font></span><div class="gmail_quote">
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