Prediction: Exoplanet Discoveries to Drive Massive SpaceTelescope Deployment

On Dec 3, 7:05*pm, HVAC wrote:
On 12/1/2010 12:23 AM, Mike Dworetsky wrote:



Space multielement interferometers are "practical", but a monolithic
large space mirror ("miles"??) is not, for all sorts of reasons.

I leave it as an exercise for readers to come up with arguments for and
against.

Exercise THIS.....

A lot of discussion has been about interstellar craft. Well, first, I
was predicting about giant telescopes, not interstellar craft. Then I
included a link to http://1mmph.yolasite.com/ , which is my (crude but
message-delivering) website about a proposal for solar system
exploration, not intersteller (yet).

Interstellar, at near-lightspeed, to destinations within tens of light
years, is at least THEORETICALLY, ULTIMATELY possible without
violating the known laws of physcis. But that is some steps (and
decades or centuries) beyond the giant telescopes for looking around
our stellar neighborhood. High speed solar system exploration needs to
happen before interstellar, also. 1mmph...

Another dicsussion got going about Man's problem being inward. This is
a whole big, other subject. At the earthly level, no one wants us to
stop improving qualitiy of life efforts, through technology, social
action, etc. But refusing to spend on scientific research until we
have utopia, here, means no more scientific research. Also, scientific
research can help with the improving of physical quality of life.

At the REAL PROBLEM LEVEL: For the wages of sin is death, but the free
gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.