
Looking up - 03 July 2020
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How do we justify spending on science and technology at a time like this? Well here to tell us about a very justifiable project is Willem Esterhuyse, an engineer on the Square Kilometre Array radio astronomy project. He is in charge of a project designing and manufacturing ventilators for use in hospitals for COVID-19 patients. It seems the skills for engineering the world's largest telescope are transferable to many other useful ventures.