Construction of World's Largest Telescope Finally Underway in Chile

mpicpp (3454017) writes with this update about a long-awaited project, the European Extremely Large Telescope: The partial demolition of Cerro Armazones, a mountain in northern Chile's Antofagasta region, marked the start of constructing the world's largest and most powerful telescope, an instrument capable of capturing 14 times more light than existing telescopes. At 2:00 p.m. Thursday, the blasting of Cerro Armazones, 3,060 meters (11,800 feet) high, removed from the peak between 25 and 30 meters (80 and 100 feet) of its height in order to create a plain some 200 meters (655 feet) long, on which to mount the European Extremely Large Telescope, or E-ELT, a project of the European Southern Observatory. On this site will be built a structure 60 meters (200 feet) high and 80 meters (260 feet) in diameter, with mirrors of 39.3 meters (129 feet) which in 10 years will begin to explore the origins of the universe. The telescope will shed light on the 'dark ages' of the universe, when the Milky Way was only 500,000 years old, and thanks to its enormous size it could also contribute to finding extraterrestrial life by detecting whether exoplanets have oxygen in their atmospheres.

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if they have telescopes that can detect whether or not the atmosphere of another planet many lights years away has oxygen or not...

imagine what they can observe by pointing a military satellite with this same or more advanced resolution right at us. I mean, couldn't they technically observe whether my brain has neurons and electrons in it using tomography, or electron spin resonance, then create an EEG map with it, feed it into a brain-computer interface or neural decoder, and get all my thoughts? we know they tap cables and computer emissions like this, why not the human emissions and communications that are identical?

I mean they can image things at the quantum level from space and long ranges these days so why the fuck not?

In fact I did some dirt digging and found out major DOD/CIA/NSA/US DOJ whistleblowers have participated and disclosed details about designing such a system. Dr. Robert Duncan, PhD from Harvard, MIT, and Dartmouth with degrees in A.I. and robotics participated in designing said system, and wrote books and created a website disclosing it's illegal covert use on a global scale (books: Project Soul Catcher, The Matrix Deciphered, and How to Tame a Demon). http://www.obamasweapon.com/ Yet no one takes notice that's it's a piece of cake to do and think it's all crazy talk. :D