BEIJING — More than 9,000 Chinese villagers are leaving their homes to make way for aliens.
It
is not a colonization plan from outer space. The Chinese government is
relocating thousands of villagers to complete construction by September
of the world’s biggest radio telescope, whose intended purpose is to
detect signs of extraterrestrial life.
The
telescope would be 500 meters, or 1,640 feet, in diameter, by far the
largest of its kind in the world. It is called FAST, for
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, and costs an estimated
1.2 billion renminbi, or $184 million.
The mass relocation was announced
on Tuesday in a report by Xinhua, the state news agency. The report
said officials were relocating 2,029 families, a total of 9,110 people,
living within a three-mile radius of the telescope in the area of
Pingtang and Luodian Counties in the southwestern province of Guizhou.
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