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.

When all generated power is reserved for toiling computers what will the people eat then?

Can one have one's virtual cake and eat it?