wired.com— Astronomers propose an enormous liquid-mirror telescope on the moon that could be hundreds of times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope.
May 21, 2007View in Crawl 4
Sounds like a great idea. I'm just wondering how they'd transport the liquid? I mean, at the point in between exiting the Earth's gravitational pull and entering the Moon's gravitational pull, I could imagine the astronauts looking at each other as the cabin fills with liquid mercury going, "Oh sh.....".Obviously it would be contained, but I just got a funny mental picture...:-O
Do you really think the astronomers, astrophysicists, and rocket scientists haven't thought of this yet? It's not like the telescope would be a swimming pool with a mirror at the bottom of it. Theres no way this liquid would be in the free air or unprotected. I'm sure they have put a bit more thought into this than you have in your armchair.
i always wondered why they didn't take a telescope to the moon during the original missions.they had plenty of space for those buggys, and the time to assemble them and dick around.and i always wondered why they didn't take the opportunity to even photograph the stars, seeing as the lack of atmosphere would have made them the greatest photos of their kind at the time.
I disagree.. theres a million different things that we are aware off that arent funded or arent even discovered, yet we're out there spending billions of dollars trying to find "nothing specific" in space. Use what you have at your disposal.. then once you've done all you could.. or destroyed the whole freaking planet, then go out in space and find new things to exploit
thcobbsMay 21, 2007
Why?If global warming is soooooooo horrible, wouldn't any workable solution be.... worthwhile?
loftonianMay 21, 2007
Sounds like a great idea. I'm just wondering how they'd transport the liquid? I mean, at the point in between exiting the Earth's gravitational pull and entering the Moon's gravitational pull, I could imagine the astronauts looking at each other as the cabin fills with liquid mercury going, "Oh sh.....".Obviously it would be contained, but I just got a funny mental picture...:-O
duositexMay 21, 2007
What.. you mean like Blue Moon?
yujieMay 21, 2007
Thats no moon!!, it's a ....
tempest811May 21, 2007
Do you really think the astronomers, astrophysicists, and rocket scientists haven't thought of this yet? It's not like the telescope would be a swimming pool with a mirror at the bottom of it. Theres no way this liquid would be in the free air or unprotected. I'm sure they have put a bit more thought into this than you have in your armchair.
godofgodlygodsMay 21, 2007
Anyone else very amused by the whole "MELFF" bit? :)
spawnfreeMay 21, 2007
i always wondered why they didn't take a telescope to the moon during the original missions.they had plenty of space for those buggys, and the time to assemble them and dick around.and i always wondered why they didn't take the opportunity to even photograph the stars, seeing as the lack of atmosphere would have made them the greatest photos of their kind at the time.
bearingMay 24, 2007
I disagree.. theres a million different things that we are aware off that arent funded or arent even discovered, yet we're out there spending billions of dollars trying to find "nothing specific" in space. Use what you have at your disposal.. then once you've done all you could.. or destroyed the whole freaking planet, then go out in space and find new things to exploit