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Lunar Lens Takes A Step Forward

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the looking-to-the-future dept.

palewook writes "A recent breakthrough increased NASA's interest in a lunar-based space telescope. Researchers combined an ionic liquid surface and a layer of silver which produced a favorably reflective mirror."

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  1. Favorably reflective mirror? by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Lunar chicks are just gonna love this.

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    1. Re:Favorably reflective mirror? by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

      The Lunar chicks are just gonna love this.

      But if they find out they're ugly bimbos, they'll get really pissed and thrash out at Earth. The dinosours once gave them a polaroid camera...

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  2. Lunar Lens Takes A Step Forward... by said213 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lunar ant civilization takes two steps back.

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  3. In Soviet Luna ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Telescope points you!

    El hombre polvo de la Luna Soviética te folla, el hombre polvo de la Luna Soviética te folla, the dustman of the Soviet Luna fuck you.

    With the new waves technology, the nanosatellites don't need the Luna.

  4. Re:That ought to be good by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Yes, launch tons and tons of highly toxic quicksilver on a rocket to Moon. What could go wrong?"

    Well I suppose killing all life on the Moon would violate the Prime Directive.

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  5. Re:The interesting part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The main inconvenient with a telescope on the darkside of the moon is that you have to build a 10921*cos(lat) km track around the moon at the chosen latitude that the telescope will travel every 29.5 days in order to track the darkness. Most proposals call for a farside telescope, accepting the fact that it will be usable only around full moon.