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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surveillance?

[Smivs]

I suspect the UK gov't has already started work on one of these as it is easier, and cheaper in the long run, to monitor UK citizens this way than by using 1000s of CCTV cameras, and will allow the gov't to keep tabs on us even when abroad. I'm off to the dark side of the moon for a bit of *$%&&*!