On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 12:41:21 AM UTC+1, RichA wrote:
On Thursday, 21 July 2016 13:33:00 UTC-4, StarDust wrote:
On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 10:17:12 AM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
On Thursday, 21 July 2016 03:19:25 UTC-4, StarDust wrote:
On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 11:59:19 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 2:10:26 AM UTC-4, StarDust wrote:
This 350-Pound Soviet Spy Satellite Lens Could Be Yours for $16,500
http://www.popularmechanics.com/spac...atellite-lens/

50" long x 27.5" wide = F/5
Wonder what Mars would look like in this thing?
Still needs some costume made eyepieces.
We can talk to Mr. Nagler about it!

Given the speed, lack of ED glass then, I'd wager one element could be radioactive, with a nice 20-40% thorium oxide composition.

Radioactive?
Hmm! I didn't think about that?

Nothing dangerous really. A chest x-ray provides far more radiation than any of the lenses could, or a jetplane ride, as well as the usual background sources you are exposed to in a year.

Good! Than just bury the them thing next to Chernobyl!

Chernobyl was vastly overblown as a dangerous radioactive accident except at the very time it happened and poor Russian "clean-up" people died from high exposures. Now, it's practically the best wild-life sanctuary the Russkies ever though up.

They bring many thousands of children over to Ireland each year from the Chernobyl region, good people who care for those who were victims of the nuclear age. A ****ing coward like you couldn't bear to watch the consequences of what happened long after the human inflicted catastrophe no more than the town people who were forced by allied soldiers to look at the victims of the extermination camps after they were liberated in WWII.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=496_1388090800

These kids are loved.