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Folded Newtonian Telescope

Posted by timothy on from the carry-on-luggage dept.

johanneswilm writes "Michael Fallwell has figured out a way to overcome many of the problems of traditional telescope construction - making it way more compact and economical. And the whole thing is completely portable and achieves accuracy down to one or two millionths of an inch across an 18 inch surface!"

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  1. Re:Flaw in the design. by paganizer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If I could understand that, I'd probably disagree.

    You neglected to factor in the tesseract lens, BTW.

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  2. Re:I wonder... by orthogonal · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Does this qualify as an invention? Is it patentable?

    If so, I hope a big corporation doesn't manage to scoop it behind his back. Any time you radically reduce the cost of something there's a big risk of that.

    We look through the telescope and we wonder...
    why Darl McBride is staring back.

    Isn't it great the way modern patent and copyright law frees us all to concentrate on creativity and innovation, rather than legal minutia and protecting our work from overbroad and stealth patents?

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