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Canadians Plan to Build World's Biggest Telescope

Posted by samzenpus on from the great-white-north dept.

Jerry Rivers writes "If all goes according to plan, Canada will be home to the world's largest telescope. The international project, which has the support of the U.S. Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, is still in the funding stages but when finished it will be roughly the size of a football field. Maybe with this they'll finally find the Restaurant at the End of the Universe."

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  1. NFL or CFL by uncoveror · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A telescope roughly the size of a footabll field? NFL or CFL? A CFL field is much bigger.

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  2. Re:Ack your ack by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While the rest of your comment is spot on, it's not actually going to be placed in Canada. They're testing possible sites in Hawaii, Mexico and Chile.

    It's a Canadian project with international support. The fact that the U.S. Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics among others are supporting this is because these Canadians have come up with something way beyond the state of the art and demonstrated to the satisfaction of the worlds most knowledgable that they will indeed be able to pull it off.

    In my opinion, this makes the spiteful little jabs that are sprouting up in this discussion are very easy to dismiss.

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  3. Re:Ack your ack by trotski · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This article is so full of mistakes it's not even funny! To clarify, www.amec.com is a British company, on the same scale as Bechtel or Fleur in the US.

    The hertzberg institute is a canadian research institute, not american. The telescope is being build as a partnership between Hertzberg and Caltech. Read more here: http://www.tmt.org/

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