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Giant Mexican Telescope Launched
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."
If they are trying to impress people with its size, you'd think they'd come up with a better name than "The Large Millimeter Telescope".
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They unveiled that monster? They must have lots of cloth if they were able to veil something of that size.
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Oh, so they plan to use that old extinct volcano comes to life and launches the telescope propulsion technique. Isn't that kind of optimitistic?
This is a rather exciting endeavour for those with interest in anything "out there" as equipment of this magnitude is not readily available. Digging into the "building blocks" of inner and outer space, and everything in between, will no doubt yield some interesting surprises, as Hubble continues to do.
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Damn. Here I've been using the regular-sized ones all this time...
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I don't think the telescope was "launched"; the pic in the article suggests it's a big radio disk attached firmly to the ground.
It isn't in orbit and never will be unless the volcano it is bolted to erupts.
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Hmm... What could the Mexicans need the world's biggest mirror for...
The NSF has sunk nearly all their money into the ALMA array in Chile, and we get the scraps. That's unfortunate because they'll never let students near the ALMA array, since it will cost gazillions of dollars per hour to operate. So it's nice to see another single-dish millimeter wave scope opening.
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They are probably using it this very second to scan for weaknesses in the American Over-Reactive Border Fence System.
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You've got your stereotypes all mixed up, man. Let me lay it out for you:
Black people and White trash work in fast food.
Hispanics work in agriculture and sometimes construction.
Come on man, you gotta do your homework to be a proper racist.
The in won't be in there best interest to try and prevent there poorest from coming over here.
The support infrastructure for any space program requires higher paid employees, which means more money for spending, which means more jobs.
We should help them get good economical growth. That is the ONLY way to stop ilegal immigration.
As I'm sure you don't relize, illegal imigration is not as bad as people like to spout off about.
Did you know there are farms in new Mexico that pay 10.70 an hour with benefits and they still can't get legal citizens to work there? That they used to be worked by migration laborors that would come out of Mexico during the season and then return to mexico after the season?
The support infrastructure for any space program requires higher paid employees, which means more money for spending, which means more jobs.
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Just the ones we show to tourists, the good ones we keep for ourselves. Same for the tequila.
Poverty, crime, and corruption ??? You are talking about Louisiana right?
I was surprised to find less than 5 interesting and well-modded comments in this discussion. Most of you just made fun of the misleading headline, the rest made racist comments or criticized the Mexican government for spending funds in scientific research, instead of spening it in "more important things".
While I do agree that there are a lot of problems in Mexico, I also understand that scientific research is key for a country's development. As someone else already pointed out, skilled Mexicans will work at this telscope facilites, further exapnding knowledge and research, supporting the development of even more Mexican scientists.
Also of mention, should you'd read the fscking article, you'd realize it's not a space telescope, but rather a ground-based one.
And, what's with the racist comments? So it's not ok to make ethnic remarks about "african-americans", "native-americans" or "the latino population in the US", but it's perfectly fine to poke at your Mexican neighbors? What a bunch of hypocrats.
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