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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. Benchmark by wanerious · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wonder how clearly we'll be able to resolve the goatsce guy from large distances, of course correcting for atmospheric turbulence and the curvature of the Earth.

  2. Peeping Tom Style... by dakkon1024 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So this means I can check out alien woman now? =)

  3. Re:Slashdot janitors!! by advocate_one · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "We're one Santa who you don't want coming down your chimney. Ho ho ho!"

    What??? the fat, jackbooted Coca-Cola version???

    --
    Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
  4. Yes, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    will they be able to aim it at the women's dorm?