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- FritoPendejo, on 11/16/2009, -0/+13I really couldn't grasp the size of this thing until they compared it to a blue whale. It helped to compare it to something that I experience every day and isn't close to the shape of the telescope.
- Peggles, on 11/16/2009, -0/+6Astronomy has to be the one of the most exciting branches of science these days. There are tons of new discoveries all the time. I can't wait to see the images this telescope produces!
- RGB0099CC, on 11/17/2009, -0/+6This "proto hominid monkey" thinks you should shove it.
- appleseed1234, on 11/16/2009, -0/+5God Himself could not sink this Telescope.
- temsi, on 11/16/2009, -2/+7Iceberg jokes in 3, 2, 1...
- s73v3r, on 11/16/2009, -0/+5Been so for quite a while.
- sprotacular, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3Yep
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/titanic - donkz, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2@title
NO ***** - PhoenixAvatar2, on 11/17/2009, -1/+3But it's not space based. That gives it a huge disadvantage.
- JQP123, on 11/16/2009, -1/+212 times the resolution of Hubble and it only cost $970 million?
The last Hubble repair mission cost more than that. Altogether, NASA has burned well over $12 billion on Hubble. - taibo, on 11/16/2009, -7/+8Wait, is the telescope on the Titanic? I'm confused.
- Vega18h37m, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1At this point there are 3 designs that have funding: GMT, E-ELT and TMT. The OWL 2-3 years ago went through a design review where it got scaled down to 42 meters which is now the E-ELT.
- breakaway, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1Ahhahah milk out of my nose!
- dominicdking, on 11/17/2009, -1/+1I hope this is able to be used to see if we had really landed on the moon or not...
- JQP123, on 11/17/2009, -2/+1"That gives it a huge disadvantage."
12 times the resolution for 1/10th the cost --- that's a disadvantage I think we can deal with. - Lordy1952, on 11/16/2009, -5/+3Dude...why is this named Titanic... its gonna sink
- tMANwi, on 11/16/2009, -7/+3Wait... Titanic is an adjective now?
- vaticdart, on 11/16/2009, -6/+1Yawn...
Exciting if they build it, but there's about half a dozen 15 meter or bigger designs for telescopes floating around right now. One is the OWL, which is 100 meters. All modern telescopes are built with adaptive optics and use the segmented primary mirror design, so nothing new there.
Wake me up when they break ground and then again when they get first light. - gigasquid, on 11/16/2009, -7/+2The more powerful the telescope the farther up your a*se you get.
The universe is a fractal dimension - it doesn't matter how big the telescope gets, there's ALWAYS more.
None of what you discover with this telescope will have any real bearing and impact on the ordinary human being. We will continue to be hungry, homeless, disfunctional, unintelligent and isolated.
But still, given all of that, not too bad for a recently evolved species of proto hominid monkey. - Garofoli, on 11/16/2009, -7/+2I thought you can't have a telescope bigger than 8 meters? At least that's what Astronomy taught me.
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