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Telescope Will Have Images 10X Sharper Than Hubble
jangobongo writes "After a 20 year struggle, the University of Arizona's $120 million Large Binocular Telescope was dedicated last week. This unique telescope will have twin 8.4-meter (27.6 foot) mirrors that sit on a single mount. Using methods similar to a medical CAT scan, a technique of "tomographic" image reconstruction will be used to produce pictures 10 times sharper (example) than the Hubble Space Telescope for a fraction of its $2 billion dollar cost."
This isn't intended to be a troll, but I just don't get space exploration. I mean, there are a lot of good causes that all these dollars could be going to right here on Earth: stopping wars, battling diseases, increasing literacy, fighting pollution.. What's the big deal with a vast area of unexplored vacuum? It's not like it's going to disappear anytime soon.
I didn't just do this post, I also did Yomomma!
Because if you do not agree with the idea that NASA should be given an unlimited budget to build whatever they want you will be modded down for trolling.
Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.
Not to mention being able to zoom in on the wrinkles in the nipple of a girl on the beaches of Europe.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
still, if you can do a big enough telescope down here to do essentially hubbles job better than it does on the orbit, then it does compare against hubble favorably.
the post i replied to implied that there was inhirent value in it being in orbit, like if it being on orbit mattered more than what you could achieve with it(and that's just the kind of phb thinking that wastes money).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.