Quake3World

http://www.pha.jhu.edu/hop/

How can they say no?
A brand new Hubble telescope launched for the price of the servicing mission on the old one without the problem of fast approaching window of repair or risks and using the parts they were going to use (or scrap) for the repair mission.

They can easily say no. Doesn't the US congress need to approve the money?

Well if congress was going to approve the repair, why the hell not just put up a new one?

They plan to put a new one up Trans. It's just the delay between the Hubble's death and the new one that is the problem. I personally think there should be more optical space telescopes up there.

Have you heard of this new mirror being built for a huge earth-based telescope? It's going to work like a pair of binoculars, apparently, which will improve accuracy and clarity of picture. I hear the glass lenses are so polished and flat that their edges deviate by only 1/1000th the diameter of a human hair. That's pretty fucking flat.

http://medusa.as.arizona.edu/lbto/

You're thinking of this right? My computer crashed before I could post it.

This only gonna pick up the visible spectrum?

Transient wrote:Have you heard of this new mirror being built for a huge earth-based telescope? It's going to work like a pair of binoculars, apparently, which will improve accuracy and clarity of picture. I hear the glass lenses are so polished and flat that their edges deviate by only 1/1000th the diameter of a human hair. That's pretty fucking flat.

Yeah but with it being on Earth won't that kinda spoil the photo?

o'dium wrote:

Transient wrote:Have you heard of this new mirror being built for a huge earth-based telescope? It's going to work like a pair of binoculars, apparently, which will improve accuracy and clarity of picture. I hear the glass lenses are so polished and flat that their edges deviate by only 1/1000th the diameter of a human hair. That's pretty fucking flat.

Yeah but with it being on Earth won't that kinda spoil the photo?

They can compensate for the atmospheric effects relatively well.

What about that Darwin or Gaia space telescope or whatever it was called?

Those 5 huge discs in space? Is it going to be built or did they cancel it?

Supposedly it would have been the first telescope to directly see other planets. (without techniques such as transfer, wobble, etc.)

James Webb Space telescope? That's still many years away (scheduled for 2014).

Yes we will be able to directly see planets around other suns, but it may take a decade or more.

I still want them to do that "ring" thing they was gonna do. Some kind of huge ring around the planet, it would serve as some kind of station?

Or was i just watching something on sci-fi again

o'dium wrote:

Transient wrote:Have you heard of this new mirror being built for a huge earth-based telescope? It's going to work like a pair of binoculars, apparently, which will improve accuracy and clarity of picture. I hear the glass lenses are so polished and flat that their edges deviate by only 1/1000th the diameter of a human hair. That's pretty fucking flat.

Yeah but with it being on Earth won't that kinda spoil the photo?

Definitely not. This telescope is going to be many times stronger than even Hubble, not to mention there are ways to get around the interference from our atmosphere.

dzjepp wrote:This only gonna pick up the visible spectrum?

It will at least get infrared, but the degree of precision they can get from the visible spectrum is really incredible.