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Canadians Plan to Build World's Biggest Telescope
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."
$750 million 10 years to build! This better have some hi-def images of little green men at the end of it
Maybe with this they'll finally find the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Silly editors...by the time the light from the end of the universe gets here, Earth will have been destroyed by the Vogons.
Oh, and when it happens, let me be the first to say:
DUPE!
Maybe with this they'll finally find the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
So you aren't actually familiar with Douglas Adams' work then? Because "the end" refers to the death of the universe, not the farthest reaches of the universe. Unless this new telescope can see into the future (and fiction), it's not going to find the Restaraunt. Looks like somebody's name-dropping to win geek points. Sorry, we can spot fakes a mile off.
The telescope refered to in this article is to be the world's largest *optical* telescope. The world's largest telescope will continue to be the Arecibo radio telescope.
Point them the other way.
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First there was the Very Large Telescope.
Then there was the Extremely Large Telescope.
As of a year or so ago, no kidding, they're building the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (official name).
So what name does this one get?
The Staggeringly Large Telescope? Not as big as "overwhelming". The Astonishingly Large Telescope? Also too small. Ditto for "Frighteningly".
Stupefyingly? Or perhaps the Surpassingly Large Telescope?
The Horrifyingly Large Telescope?
Possibly The Nightmarishly Huge Telescope. Or the Blood-Curdlingly Large Telescope.
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While I'm sure other countries will get in on a project of this magnitude, I think both the /. summary and the original article in the Toronto Star are incorrect, I've never heard of a U.S. Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics, and I would be very surprised if one existed, since Gerard Herzberg was a Nobel Prize (chemistry) winning Canadian scientist. Not only there, there is already a National Research Council of Canada Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics in Victoria. A quick google search also didn't show any "U.S. Herzberg Institute".
Shame on The Star.
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