Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon?

Matt_dk writes "A team of internationally renowned astronomers and opticians may have found a way to make "unbelievably large" telescopes on the Moon. 'It's so simple,' says Ermanno F. Borra, physics professor at the Optics Laboratory of Laval University in Quebec, Canada. 'Isaac Newton knew that any liquid, if put into a shallow container and set spinning, naturally assumes a parabolic shape, the same shape needed by a telescope mirror to bring starlight to a focus. This could be the key to making a giant lunar observatory.'"

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Done on mythbusters-busted

[harris s newman]

Ok, do you scientists even watch tv? Mythbusters tried this with mercury and it didn't work. I guess having ideal circumstances on earth makes it wrong, doing on the moon would be much easier.

Re:Read TFA, sounds fundamentally flawed.

[CaptainOfSpray]

Mod parent -1 Not Very Insightful At All. Moon surface has constant fall of dust thrown up by constant meteorite impacts.