News: Astronomers plan giant telescope

Etok wrote:

John Honan wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3203963.stm
US scientists have drawn up plans to build the largest telescope ever
seen.

Its 30-metre-diameter mirror would be almost 10 times as big as those
in the
Keck telescopes in Hawaii, currently the world's largest observatories.


John.
http://www.irishastronomy.com/



I feel very, very strongly, that they should make it a dob.

Let's lobby congress.

Etok


Sorry to respond to my own post, but the article says:

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.

Regards,
Etok


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