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Location chosen for European Extremely Large Telescope

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BBC News - Location chosen for European Extremely Large Telescope

Quote(The E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope) will have a primary mirror 42m in diameter - about five times the width of today's best telescopes.

Astronomers say the next-generation observatory will be so powerful it will be able to image directly rocky planets beyond our Solar System.

It should also be able to provide major insights into the nature of black holes, galaxy formation, the mysterious "dark matter" that pervades the Universe, and the even more mysterious "dark energy" which appears to be pushing the cosmos apart at an accelerating rate.)

Additionally it might be able to spot Prof. Stephen Hawking aliens thus giving us earthlings advance warning?
 
Aptly named piece of equipment.
 
Aha another fan of 'Boston Legal' ?
 
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BBC News - Location chosen for European Extremely Large Telescope

Quote(The E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope) will have a primary mirror 42m in diameter - about five times the width of today's best telescopes.

Astronomers say the next-generation observatory will be so powerful it will be able to image directly rocky planets beyond our Solar System.

It should also be able to provide major insights into the nature of black holes, galaxy formation, the mysterious "dark matter" that pervades the Universe, and the even more mysterious "dark energy" which appears to be pushing the cosmos apart at an accelerating rate.)

Additionally it might be able to spot Prof. Stephen Hawking aliens thus giving us earthlings advance warning?

Quite an expense, but not needed. Not when you can synchronize a bunch of smaller telescopes with each other, which would provide more resolution than even Europe's latest money trap.
 
Large telescopes on the surface of the planet suffer from the distorting effects of Earth’s atmosphere. Pockets of air in the atmosphere act like tiny lenses, causing aberrations and bending the light from celestial objects in random, unpredictable directions. The only way to prevent this is by placing a visible-light telescope above the atmosphere, these distortions are not encountered. Also, the atmosphere absorbs most other wavelengths of light. Placing a telescope in space is the only way to view celestial objects in those wavelengths. This telescope is wasteful, uneeded, and potentially idiotic.
 
Large telescopes on the surface of the planet suffer from the distorting effects of Earth’s atmosphere. Pockets of air in the atmosphere act like tiny lenses, causing aberrations and bending the light from celestial objects in random, unpredictable directions. The only way to prevent this is by placing a visible-light telescope above the atmosphere, these distortions are not encountered. Also, the atmosphere absorbs most other wavelengths of light. Placing a telescope in space is the only way to view celestial objects in those wavelengths. This telescope is wasteful, uneeded, and potentially idiotic.

Ah yes, but it does allow the EU to imagine it means something.
Besides what is the point of over taxation if the Socialists cannot wastefully spend it.
 
Quite an expense, but not needed. Not when you can synchronize a bunch of smaller telescopes with each other, which would provide more resolution than even Europe's latest money trap.

Sounds more like jealously.
 
Large telescopes on the surface of the planet suffer from the distorting effects of Earth’s atmosphere. Pockets of air in the atmosphere act like tiny lenses, causing aberrations and bending the light from celestial objects in random, unpredictable directions.

that's why they build it in a desert

The only way to prevent this is by placing a visible-light telescope above the atmosphere, these distortions are not encountered. Also, the atmosphere absorbs most other wavelengths of light. Placing a telescope in space is the only way to view celestial objects in those wavelengths. This telescope is wasteful, uneeded, and potentially idiotic.

I don't think it's possible to launch a 42-meter wide object in space
 
Ah yes, but it does allow the EU to imagine it means something.
Besides what is the point of over taxation if the Socialists cannot wastefully spend it.

We pay our taxes to build scientific firsts abroad.

You pay your taxes to wage unnecessary wars.

To each his own:2wave:
 
Sounds more like jealously.

What jealousy? You guys want to waste money on one large telescope, when synchronizing an array of smaller telescopes can result in better images at a fraction of the price? Knock yourselves out. It only shows me that your leaders are retarded. :mrgreen:
 
What jealousy? You guys want to waste money on one large telescope, when synchronizing an array of smaller telescopes can result in better images at a fraction of the price? Knock yourselves out. It only shows me that your leaders are retarded. :mrgreen:

How's them Texas textbooks working for ya:mrgreen:

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How's them Texas textbooks working for ya:mrgreen:

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Yea, you got me on that one, but I didn't support that mess. And yea, I know, I know, we gave the world George Bush too, and I thank you for not going medieval on me and bringing that one up. LOL.
 
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I don't think it's a waste of money if it leads to scientific discoveries and other observations never before seen.
 
Yea, you got me on that one, but I didn't support that mess. And yea, I know, I know, we gave the world George Bush too, and I thank you for not going medieval on me and bringing that one up. LOL.

Sorry, your bait was too obvious I had to pass; but I agree though: Dubya has been one of the most retarded leaders in the Western world.

Back to the E-ELT, from the BBC article:

"Coming up with a workable design has been a challenge. It is impossible to make a monolithic mirror on such a scale and so the primary reflecting surface will be composed of 984 hexagonal segments, each 1.45m in size.

The E-ELT will thus be able to gather 15 times more light than the largest optical telescopes operating today. It will also provide images 15 times sharper than those from the Hubble Space Telescope
."

What was your point again???:rofl
 
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