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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.'"
Actually, it just seems large because the moon looks so small. My guess is you're holding the telescope the wrong way round.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I can't believe it! Do you? *gasps*
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...n unbelievably large telescope on the moon.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Yeah, building stuff on the moon is a doddle.
there is no dark side of the Moon really... as a matter of fact it's all dark
You just build a big tube. Like a giant internet that goes to the moon.
Maybe not
This is total lunacy!
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
If this would have been a "steampunk" telescope on the moon, then this article would have made boingboing.
This could be the key to making a giant lunar observatory
Or a fully functional battle-station.
Oblig. "There is no dark side of the moon. It's all dark."
Look, I don't care who you work for sonny, you are not flying with more than 100ml of liquid in your luggage, so hand it over. Bloody astronauts think they are so superior.
Home fucking is killing prostitution.
I would call it the dark side just if only for Pink Floyd.
Everyone, sing with me:
We're whalers on the moon
We carry a harpoon
But there ain't no whales
So we tell tall tales
And sing a whaling tune
Don't be ridiculous; the moon is both smaller, less geologically active and less populated that any place on earth.
Not so, my house is smaller, less geologically active, and more populated than the moon.
It's FAR SIDE people! Far Side, Far Side, Far Side. Like the cartoon.
So... you're saying it's populated by bipedal cows and mad scientists?
The enemies of Democracy are
Well, if Obama wins you can kiss this "ionized liquid telescope" idea goodbye. We all know the unionized liquid lobbies have the Dems in their pockets.
The last time someone called a meteor a falling star, I punched them in the neck and threw them down a well. It's the only way.
We're not just broke, our debt is unbelievably large!
Oblig. "That's no moon..."
vatch me split my letters.