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New Wide-Angle Telescope to Capture Night Sky

NewScientist is reporting that a new telescope located in Chile is aiming to capture images of the entire night sky every three nights. From the article: "The telescope will use a digital camera with 3 billion pixels to image the entire sky across three nights, producing an expected 30 terabytes of data per night. This will allow astronomers to detect objects that quickly change their position, such as near-Earth asteroids, or their brightness, such as supernovae."

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  1. 30 terabytes of data per night by johansalk · · Score: -1, Troll

    And this hunk of data will be sifted through with none other than the little language called forth, the standard language of the international astronomical union.

  2. Re:Holy Storage Area Network Batman! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    alot?

    You dumb fuck.

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    Check out the prostitute schedule for May 20, 2006 at the MBOT.

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    Crazy Horse
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    980 Market Street
    San Francisco, California

    Gold Club
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    650 Howard Street
    San Francisco, California

  4. Re:easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So you're a heavy porn user then, eh? Thanks for the brief insight into your sorry, little, lonely world.

  5. Sausage Fest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Slashdot is a sausage fest

  6. Re:easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Porn isn't sex.

    Actual sex involves real people rather than a lonely geek barricaded into a darkened basement with a computer and a box of tissues.

    If you want to learn and experience, step 1 is to throw away the porn. I'll let you extrapolate what step 2 might be.