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Man Behind The Thirty Metre Telescope

Posted by timothy on from the observe-your-neighbors-discreetly dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Astronomer Richard Ellis of Caltech talks about the planned Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT), with nine times the resolution of the world's largest existing telescopes, which will be able to locate earth-like planets for the first time, here"

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  1. Re:Slashdot janitors!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, technically, of the four major English speaking nations, three of them spell it "metre." (And "colour," "armour," etc). Three-to-one, metre wins.