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The Billion-Dollar Telescope

dcmeserve writes "As in all science, astronomers are ever searching for better technology to aid in their task. But when it comes to telescopes, nothing beats sheer bulk of light-gathering capability. This article gives a brief overview of the top contenders for the next leap forward, including a 100-meter behemoth that is expected to run $1 billion."

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  1. Trolling bible FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  3. help by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    slashdot used to link to a movie review site that i loved to read. i've forgotten it's name but someone here must know what it is. all google attempts fail. shame on me.

  4. MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    only informative comment in this article at this time

  5. Mod parent up... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He is doing us Slashdot usera a great service by mirroring these pages. Honour him.

    Please, mod him up.

  6. robbIE rumoured as won of last .com billyonerrors? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 31, @12:08PM (#7846083)
    no need to wrap it, just put it on the kharm(a).

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  7. Re:NYTimes Google Affiliate Link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    then y not post as AC if karma doesnt matter?

  8. Re:Don't forget... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...which you can't afford, Dessi. It must suck to live in your parents basement.

  9. REDUNDANT! Link provided is Google Link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    too bad, no mod points for you.

  10. OK SIR HAXALOT/PINGULAR/AENS/WHATEVER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You've been asked to stop, we modbomb you down, and you come back for more. Bitch, IT'S ON.

    The parent poster is the newest account created by the infamous Sir Haxalot/Pingular/Steve 'Rim' Jobs/Aens. How do I know? He posts in the EXACT SAME STYLE as these other accounts. He PLAGARIZES popular posts from previous discussions and claims them as his own in a pathetic attempt to gain karma bonuses. Well, Mr. SlashdotCEO, you ain't foolin' me. A quick Google search reveals that this IDENTICAL POST was posted previously in a discussion from October. Your posts are copied and unoriginal, no one likes you, you are continually modbombed into oblivion, yet to seem to come back for more. GO AWAY. WE HATE YOU. PLEASE DIE.

    Moderators, do your thing. The parent post is PLAGARIZED, COPIED from a similiar discussion. Mod this shitbrick as Overrated or, if you feel gutsy against the M2, mark it as Troll. Please remeber, he is SlashdotCEO, an unorignal lamer. Mod all future posts down and see if we can't convine this prepubescent troll to grow up.

  11. Re:Telescopes in the UK by Aardpig · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What courses did you teach? We may have seen each other, I graduated in 1994

    Ah, I would have just missed you; I was teaching first year in 1994 (telescope training on the Meades, and the classroom-based stuff). Out of interest, are you still in astronomy?

    --
    Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
  12. Mod Parent Down -- Troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why are you trolls attacking insightful posts? Do you not have a life?

  13. SHUT UP AENS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are not "insightful". You merely repost others' comments and claim them as your own in a pathetic attempt to gain extra karma. Read my post again for the proof of your plagarizim, you scumbag loser.

  14. Re:Telescopes in the UK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    SlashdotCEO has never even been to the UK, I guarantee it. Just a reposting troll, move along...

  15. Re:More Info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Goatse? Check if you have a virus, wasn't Goatse for me...

  16. Re:Mod this parent down, it's not a goatse link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    no fucking text here, sorry.

  17. Re:PARENT IS A KNOWN TROLL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do not mod the parent post up! He is a troll known for posting duplicate [slashdot.org] comments [slashdot.org] in a effort to achieve greater karma. He brings nothing to this discussion. Other accounts used by this same troll are Sir Haxalot [slashdot.org], Pingular [slashdot.org], Steve 'Rim' Jobs [slashdot.org], and Aens [slashdot.org].

    Please moderate him as Overrated to avoid any penalities incurred by clueless meta-moderations. This post has been brought to you by a concerned Slashdot reader who wants to keep the quality of the posts on here at their highest, including the creative trolls. Reposting comments, however, has got to go.

  18. Re:Mod down parent, plz. It's legit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nope. It's goatse.

    Quite a cunning tactic really - have a bunch of people claiming that it is a legitimate link, making those who say it's something vile appear to be the trolls.

    There's a ton of redirects when you follow the goatse link, and I'm also wondering it it's doing something clever with referer headers. If, say, the URL a moderator is reading from is in any way different from a normal Slashdot reader's URL, then a script could pick up on this and redirect them to a 'nice' page, while directing everyone else to a distended anus.

    I really hope I haven't given someone an idea.

  19. Re:Telescopes in the UK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Could you guys get a room?

  20. Re:Mod down parent, plz. It's legit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yer an idiot theres no way to tell if someone is a moderator by their url or ip its just normal /. uzerzzz...

  21. Re:More Info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    heh...it makes me giggle to think about how many poor saps are going to click on that and see that horribleness. how many people do you spose were written up for having pr0n on their computer at work?

  22. He change it to Goatse.cx when he's modded up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    See subject for what's ACTUALLY happening.. *sigh*

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