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Giant Mexican Telescope Launched

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they're-watching-you dept.

SilentOneNCW writes "A new telescope has been unveiled in Mexico by President Vicente Fox. The Large Millimeter Telescope will be used to pick up electromagnetic radiation known as millimetre waves emitted 13 billion years ago, when the first stars burst into existence, astrophysicists say. The $128M telescope is a joint project between Mexico and the US. With an antenna diameter of 164 feet, the LMT dwarfs existing millimetre-wave telescopes and should be able to pick up signals from the faintest objects in outer space."

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  1. Faintest objects indeed by KanadaKid19 · · Score: 0, Troll

    With an antenna diameter of 164 feet, the LMT dwarfs existing millimetre-wave telescopes and should be able to pick up signals from the faintest objects in outer space.See, it doesn't see anything fainter! Point out something this can't see! Can't? Well then, it must see the faintest objects now, right?

  2. Don't they have bigger problems? by Mo+B.+Dick · · Score: 1, Troll

    Poverty, crime, and corruption are major problems over there and they are wasting money on a space program? I know if I was running the country and people were trying to leave for the US en masse I would probably focus my attention on domestic issues instead of launching a space program which would be decades behind the most established programs in the US and Russia.

  3. That must be one big paper towel tube! by rubberbando · · Score: 0, Troll

    That should go nicely with all of those 'Mexican Space Shuttles' (construction worker slang for porta-potties)

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  4. Somewhere out there by slicknick1986 · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's good to see the U.S. and Mexico working together. With this, we can finally find the planet our southern friends came from.