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Vote On What the Very Large Telescope Observes
arisvega writes "The Slashdot crowd may be aware of VLT, the Very Large Telescope array (a collaboration between several European countries). It's located at the Atacama desert in Chile, operating at the visible and infrared wavelengths and producing some very detailed images and exciting new science. It has been significantly boosting astronomy and astrophysics research for the past couple of years without the hassle and the expenses of orbital observatories. Now, and for the first time in its history, there is a public invitation calling you to vote on which of the 16 proposed locations you would like the array to be pointed at, without the need for a scientific proposal. Astronomers are standing by to do your bidding!"
That way I dont look creepy looking through mine any more :-)
No contest.
Defeating the Obama is to be the most celebrating event of the last 100 years!
W00t!
Insert obligatory Uranus joke here...
Uranus!
...hehe...suckers!
my ass isn't one of them.
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The target will not be observed with the array of four telescopes, rather just one of the telescopes will do the observation. Taking data simultaneously with all four telescopes is a tricky procedure and yields data, while extremely useful scienfically, it's very different from the pretty pictures that this contest is after.
The facility is in the southern hemisphere so the Magellanic Clouds are observable.
Compile monthly or weekly observations of Eta Carinae that can be edited into a video or slideshow.
We're still looking for that intelligent life.
Part staring contest, part engineering contest.
Who would have thought that the only one listed with any type of recognizable name, has the most votes.
How else will it know it exists!?
Great Intellect...
What is the most interesting? Closest?
Let's try to find that mystery planet near the star Kolob.
Gum 19 — star-forming region with variable star V391 Velorum
Cowboy Neal option?
And as a 12 year old on Xbox Live I believe I've found the source of dark matter in the universe, which is also known as your mom.
Asking me to vote on targets for a multibillion dollar telescope is like asking me to vote on whether a new bridge should have six lanes or eight. Case in point: California. Each election, dozens of issues are put up for public vote. Result: crappy short-sighted decisions. We vote for representatives and we hire experts to weigh the issues and make informed choices.
On the waiting to activate iPhone screen.
The moon landing sites, spy satellites of foreign countries, some random nearly dark body, voyager 1 and 2.
And via a reflector some hot chick on Earth.
JJ
Have gnu, will travel.
they're gone Mac so on, FreeBSD went that he documents Part of GNAA if TCP/IP stack has
next question please
the FP's cock.. it is the only way we will find it
That way we can prove once and for all that NASA never ...
before Soviet Russia observes YOU!
I know nothing about how these things work, but I do like nice pictures. Some of the most facinating I've seen recently are of the surface of the sun - can we get some more of these?
popular vote.
Quick, everyone flood the poll with "your mom."
Pick a region in space that has nothing and see how far into space we can see until nothing becomes millions of young galaxies.
Let's point it at Niburu since Google Sky has deleted the whole area.
OR the Puppeteer's Rosette; I'm not picky.