A big problem with one large mirror is the heat they retain. Just as heat waves distort light during busy traffic, it can mess up the images taken in by a telescope.
Small mirror arrays stay away from this problem. If they are, in fact, making one big mirror, how did they dodge this problem?
Give Joe Average Person a car and he gets into accidents. Don't give him a bigger piece of metal to cause even more damage. I can see it now. "The moon has a new crater in it. And in related news, Joe Average Person was found inside the crater, scorched to a crisp, DOA."
I suppose it's a good idea if you have a big house and want to use your PC in the office to play Barry White in the bedroom, but, living in a studio apartment, I just plug my stereo into my computer with a few $5 attachments, and voila.
Thing is we still have Pluto and its buddy Charon to take pictures of. Should be we do that (and maybe even take some more pictures of Europa on the way), or concentrate our efforts on our neighbor, God of War? Do we broaden our search or narrow our search? SETI has a tendency to do narrow intense searches, should NASA do the same?
There have even been some hypotheses that life on Earth actually started as life on Mars.
Some meteorite (such as the one they have evidence of long dead, very teeny bacteria, with carbon, bacteria holes, and even a piece of magnetite that primitive bacteria on Earth have to guide them to food) was knocked off Mars, with a few bacteria on it, sailed the long haul over to Earth, and then infected Earth, beginning the long process of evolution.
If it's able to be cracked, it will be cracked. So crack it while it's still infant. -- If a kid never gets the crap beat out of him as a child, he's going to be one vulnerable adult.
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Small mirror arrays stay away from this problem. If they are, in fact, making one big mirror, how did they dodge this problem?
Give Joe Average Person a car and he gets into accidents. Don't give him a bigger piece of metal to cause even more damage. I can see it now. "The moon has a new crater in it. And in related news, Joe Average Person was found inside the crater, scorched to a crisp, DOA."
Why worry? It's not like there are any dinosaurs around anyway... Poor Bob Dole...
I suppose it's a good idea if you have a big house and want to use your PC in the office to play Barry White in the bedroom, but, living in a studio apartment, I just plug my stereo into my computer with a few $5 attachments, and voila.
Thing is we still have Pluto and its buddy Charon to take pictures of. Should be we do that (and maybe even take some more pictures of Europa on the way), or concentrate our efforts on our neighbor, God of War? Do we broaden our search or narrow our search? SETI has a tendency to do narrow intense searches, should NASA do the same?
There have even been some hypotheses that life on Earth actually started as life on Mars.
Some meteorite (such as the one they have evidence of long dead, very teeny bacteria, with carbon, bacteria holes, and even a piece of magnetite that primitive bacteria on Earth have to guide them to food) was knocked off Mars, with a few bacteria on it, sailed the long haul over to Earth, and then infected Earth, beginning the long process of evolution.
We could all be Martians.
Yeah. And cassette tapes also had control of the market a bit ago.
If it's able to be cracked, it will be cracked.
So crack it while it's still infant.
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If a kid never gets the crap beat out of him as a child, he's going to be one vulnerable adult.
- Justin