On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 02:58:22 UTC-4, Chris.B wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 03:52:20 UTC+1, RichA wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 08:56:57 UTC-4, Chris.B wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 10:24:42 UTC+1, RichA wrote:
https://www.lsst.org/about

10,500mm f/1.25, 3GP sensor array and a 27ft diameter mirror.

Able to scan its whole sky in...3 nights?!

Wont it take twice the lifetime of the universe to crunch all the data?

Well, they could program a computer to just look for brightness variations in the images, that's a start.


Why not just settle for '42' and be done with it?

Boore's Law: The speed of computers doubles every year to cope with mankind's total inadequacy at writing efficient software.

I knew a guy who got a job in computers when he left school as civil engineer but there were few jobs at the time. He specialized in re-writing software other wrote, to fix it. I think he stuck with it after that.