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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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A paper on the $1b telescope (called the Effelsberg telescope, after a 18th century astronomer) can be acquired here. Also the HTML version is here if you don't want to bother downloading the PDF or if you don't have a reader.
I'd paste the whole text here, but it's too long.
Spend the $1 billion on better things. We should try and solve our own planets problems before going out into space.
At least the money isn't being wasted in creating Weapons of Mass Destruction.
I managed to snag an image before the whole server got slashbotted: http://212.229.115.84/tripod/images/hubblespacetel escope.gif. Sorry for the small size.
Big science is a waste of money. A billion dollars for a telescope! The amount of money being pissed away by these people is simply incredible. And just to look at some gases and crap.
Heck, the government could buy almost half of a B2 bomber for that kind of cash!
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What courses did you teach? We may have seen each other, I graduated in 1994.
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It's a paper which has lots of important budget information, dimensions and even a few drawings in two-point perspective of potential designs.
To provide Bush with cash. Get with the times.
Light emanating from earth really does'nt die out, right? So if it was possible for us to either travel faster than light or warp space time into a circle and then get a powerful enough telescope, then we should be able to see events from the past, right?
That is travel faster than light, to a long distance, turn around and then look at earth with a powerful telescope, we should be able to see kennedy getting shot? wouldnt we? Or maybe bend spacetime so that all the light which left earth years ago comes back to earth ?
Out of interest, are you still in astronomy?
I wish, real life took hold, family, kids, etc. I have a cheap telescope and sometimes gaze to the stars, but nothing like a decade ago.
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It is extremely good to see this sort of fierce competition driving astronomy.
As open source developers, we all know the power of competition, how advances on both sides of the OS wars have driven the other to catch up or improve. If this sort of competition drives the development of telescopes then we can expect a lot of advances in science and space over the next few years
This is extremely exciting news. Maybe in years to come we will be able to see the headlines on alien newspapers.
dunno, maybe you got a virus or something?
just have to laugh out loud at that won rick.
.'s to plot with?
15k turns into 1.3 mil0? what kind of math/optics is that?
it's no billyonerrors' hostage ransom, but true to your advise.
may have spelled his name wrong? there's also rumour he's not the king of anything really, despite having 1000's more of
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A meter is a device. A metre is a unit of measure. This SHOULDN'T be difficult stuff.
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