World's Largest Telescope Up and Running

apdyck writes "ITWire is reporting that the world's largest telescope is now up and running, conducting one-year series of tests. The Great Canary Telescope, located in the Canary Islands, is the largest telescope in the world at 10.4 m (34') in diameter. Not for your average stargazer! 'The reflective telescope, sometimes also called GranTeCan, uses technology called adaptive optics, in which the mirror changes its shape in order to correct distortions of light caused by the Earth's atmosphere. The telescope is part of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, located on the island of La Palma, Spain, within the Atlantic Ocean.'"

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What would Freud say about that?

[A non-mouse Coward]

Telescope envy?

Before you mod me insensitive clod, keep in mind that we have spent $Billions to try to find other worlds outside of our own because we can't get along with the nation a thousand miles away, let alone the bloke next door. We search for ways to sustain life in celestial places with no water and no atmosphere because we think we're going to ruin ours, yet it doesn't dawn on us that if we ruin ours we will have already found a place with no water or oxygen-rich atmosphere! Say what you will, but this is definitely escapism.