re: I love Hubble, but $900 Million???

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podrock — 11/4/2006 3:41:56 AM (archived)

A Photon Sieve telescope?

Anyone have any thoughts on this research?

His 4-inch experimental model is thin as foil and uses 10 million tiny holes to do the job. So far, Andersen said, the model, which cost $1,000 to construct, works better than lenses that cost 10 times as much.

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I love Hubble, but $900 Million??? - Jeff F - 11/1/2006 8:53:58 PM
- re: I love Hubble, but $900 Million??? - podrock - 11/4/2006 3:41:56 AM
- Imagine if all the military money spent in Iraq were spent on telescopes instead (n/t) - SDF - 11/3/2006 2:13:35 PM
- Advances in ground based optics - Yeti - 11/2/2006 8:46:48 PM
  - What he said... - R.L. - 11/3/2006 1:09:29 AM
  - re: OWL - Raoul - 11/2/2006 9:19:53 PM
    - The TMT (30 meter telescope) will be built first... - R.L. - 11/3/2006 1:35:03 AM
      - It will take a hammer to pry the grasping fingers of the cosmologists off of the telescope budgets - E.P. - 11/3/2006 5:07:07 AM
        
        Does this have ANYTHING to do with my post or this thread? - R.L. - 11/4/2006 6:42:06 PM
        
        re: So you are now arguing telecommunications satellites don't exist as they are last time I checked still orbiting in "free space"...8-) (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 11/3/2006 4:11:38 PM
      - Imagine what this telescope might do... - ljk - 11/3/2006 4:35:50 AM
        
        While I certainly agree that Information Processing - Yetinaut - 11/3/2006 4:17:25 PM
- probably it wouldn't cost much more to build one from scratch... (n/t) - dd - 11/2/2006 8:01:43 PM
- $900 million would go a long way in paying for Hubble II - Lee - 11/2/2006 5:30:47 AM
  - re: $900 million would go a long way in paying for Hubble II - Jeff F - 11/2/2006 6:13:14 PM
    - JWT isn't designed for visible light. - Lee - 11/3/2006 12:32:48 AM
- The Hubble team overhead is $125 million a year? - TB - 11/2/2006 4:25:27 AM
- Oh, man! You want to cut and run? (n/t) - alcaray - 11/1/2006 10:23:27 PM
- re:What matters - Raoul - 11/1/2006 9:11:05 PM
  - re: re:What matters - Marcia - 11/2/2006 3:12:49 AM
    - re: Yes, I meant WORTH it. (n/t) - Marcia - 11/2/2006 3:14:25 AM
- Don't worry about it. NASA is flush with Cash. - Scott Evil - 11/1/2006 9:09:06 PM
  - No, Scott, it isn't - R.L. - 11/3/2006 1:20:37 AM

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