The TMT (30 meter telescope) will be built first...

R.L. — 11/3/2006 1:35:03 AM (archived)

Imagine what it will do! 3 times the best resolution we have now and 9 times the light gathering power... outfit it with smaller scopes on the side to allow Interferometry and you will see an explosion of discoveries that will be hard to keep up with.

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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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