News: Astronomers plan giant telescope

"Etok" wrote in message ...

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is funding a $17.5m feasibility
study and it could be ready for work by 2012.

This has to be a joke, right? Seventeen Million Dollars for a
feasability study? That's insane.

How much were the feasibility studies for the Kecks?
No I don't know the answer but assume you might.

Seventeen million sounds crazy if it's one guy sitting
in his university office blueskying between lectures.

OTOH material science research, engineering studies,
prototyping software, siting studies, architechure
prototyping, might add up to seventeen million if you
put enough brains on board.

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