Worlds Largest Telescope?

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 9, 2003 @03:53AM from the far-worse-than-needle-in-haystack dept.

AndersBrownworth writes "With a unique take on "Distributed Computing", the PhotonStar Project aims to search for laser transmissions from extra terrestrial life by harnessing amateur astronomers who have an optical telescope with a laser detector, a GPS and a computer with a net connection. I think it would be interesting to get a large number of computer controlled optical telescopes together that have GPS and CCD capabilities and build the world's largest optical telescope. The concept wouldn't be much different from New Mexico's VLA Radio Telescope. Given the falling prices of computer controlled optical telescopes, a project like this might not be far off."

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voyeurism just leaped into the 21'st century by ravenousbugblatter · 2003-07-09 03:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Can you imagine the possibility for website of collected peeping tom images?
Hmmm.... by JGag21 · 2003-07-09 07:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Now if we can find out how to compensate for the Earth's spherical shape, we can finally get a good look at those Brazilian Thongs.
Learn HTML by klanza · 2003-07-09 08:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What we have here is yet another web page which won't display correctly on most browsers. When will they learn that HTML cna be written to adapt to the pixel width of the browser, isntead of assuming that everybody has the same high-res system that they do? Sheesh.