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To: TobagoJack who wrote (136953)	12/10/2017 5:01:11 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 217574

>> perhaps Elmat can apply << Maybe so, but it seems more like a job for dvdw©... ;) China Will Pay More Than $1 Million to Someone to Search for Aliens newsweek.com The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) stands in Pingtang, in southwestern China’s Guizhou province. China is offering one foreign scientist more than $1 million plus benefits to run the telescope, which has been used to search for extraterrestrial life.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (136953)	12/10/2017 5:32:37 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217574

>> #6 The largest written encyclopedia was compiled during the Ming periodAn encyclopedia was commissioned by the Yongle Emperor of Ming dynasty in 1403. Compiled by thousands of Chinese scholars, it was completed by 1408 and contained a broad range of Chinese knowledge, including astronomy, geography, medicine, religion, technology and art. Known as the Yongle Encyclopedia or Yongle Dadian, it comprised of 22,937 chapters in 11,095 volumes and 917,480 pages. It was not only the largest written encyclopedia but was also one of the first. Yongle Encyclopedia held the record for the largest overall encyclopedia in history until it was surpassed by Wikipedia in 2007. << Whoa! It was so huge they couldn't afford to print copies, and now only 3.5% is left. What a loss!