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Construction Begins On $1 Billion Telescope That Will Take Pictures 10 Times Sharper Than Hubble's (qz.com)
The $1 billion Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile is officially under construction with a scheduled date of operation in 2024. The telescope "will have an array of seven enormous mirrors totaling 80 feet in diameter, giving it 10 times the precision of the Hubble telescope," reports Quartz. "Among its advances is technology to help it correct for the distorting effect of Earth's atmosphere by using software to make hundreds of adjustments per second to its array of secondary mirrors." From the report: The project's architects, a consortium of universities and institutions in the U.S., Korea, and Australia, chose to build in Chile's Atacama desert for its clear, dry skies. Astronomers will use the Magellan Telescope to study the origins of elements and the birth of stars and galaxies, and to examine planets that have been identified as potentially harboring life. Mother Nature Network has an article highlighting nine of the largest new telescopes expected to begin operation in the next decade.
Yet another anti American metric flame on Slashdot. Do you people ever get bored?
Do you people ever adopt the metric system?
Feels good to bash us, doesn't it?
Yes especially about stupid shit like not adopting the metric system.
And the world wonders why we're withdrawing and tending to our own affairs.
No we don't. We actively mock you for that too. The only thing we wonder about is why you are withdrawing from the very institutions you created.
How about, "wow, America, this new telescope will be great for science!" Nope, just grab the first negative thing you can think of.
Well to be fair you expect us to talk about science while shunning scientific units. Its like me typeing this post while pretending to be an english major.
Well I suppose we deserve it, with the invading of Iraq and the bombing a school bus in Yemen.
Not for those reasons you don't. Those reasons should bring a whole different type of ridicule and are completely unrelated to the subject matter at hand.