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The Parkes 64 metre radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia (the bigger of the two) Picture credit: CSIROThe Dish is a 2001 film based on the true story of a radio telescope in Parkes, New South Wales, Australia, that was the southern hemisphere connection to NASA for the Apollo missions to the moon.
The signal received in Parkes ended up being responsible for the televised live footage of the first steps on the moon in the Apollo 11 mission.
Although based on true events the movie uses fictional characters and alters the details for dramatic effect.
The movie was directed by Rob Sitch and starred Sam Neill. It was written by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy and Rob Sitch.
At present, the 'Dish' starring in the movie is also used for SETIArecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. SETI ( pronounced [sEti], to rhyme with "Betty") stands for Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence . Interstellar travel is a common theme in science fiction stories, but so far, in practice, the obstacles to such jo and planned used for SETI@homeSETI@home (SETI at home) is a distributed computing project for Internet-connected home computers, hosted by the University of California, Berkeley. SETI is an acronym for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. SETI@home's purpose is to analyze da.
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The Dish is also the common name for a radio telescope which sits in the foothills above Stanford UniversityFor other meanings of Stanford see Stanford (disambiguation). Stanford University is a privately funded university in Stanford, California. It is located approximately 35 miles southeast of San Francisco, in an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County ad and is currently still in use.
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