NASA Plans to Build Giant Liquid Telescopes on the Moon
A team of internationally renowned astronomers and researchers have found a way to make "unbelievably large" telescopes on the Moon. Someday, astronauts on the moon may pour liquid onto a disc-shaped mesh to make a huge mirror for a powerful telescope. The liquid would include a silver-coated surface and would be part of an optical-infrared telescope with a 66-foot (20-meter) to 328-foot (100 meter) aperture capable of observing objects 100 to 1,000 times fainter than the James Webb Space Telescope.
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What do they expect to use for money? Are we still going to fund pies in the sky while the taxpayer shoulders the cost of the bailout?
Could we have colonized the moon (or maybe Mars) for the cost of this bailout. Oh yes and maybe rejuvenated American aerospace industries (and jobs)in the process. Back to the sixties before whiners crippled the manned exploration of space!
<blockquote class="blockquote"><div class="italic"><i>Bob Young said:</i><br><br>What do they expect to use for money? Are we still going to fund pies in the sky while the taxpayer shoulders the cost of the bailout?</div></blockquote><br>Exactly. Given the bailout package(s) and the temptation to "borrow" from NASA, they will be lucky to keep the ISS afloat!<br>
Speaking of liquidity: Perhaps after the U.S. government gives two or three trillion dollars of our future income to banks, mortgage companies, and other criminal organizations, we can resume a much devalued 7 billion dollar budget. For all the money going down the toilet we could build a fleet of warp speed space craft to actually explore the planets we find thousands of light years away (the ones we discover with the fifty mile diameter liquid telescope.
NASA can save the world from a solar system disaster - like an asteroid hit, yet our government spends billions on crap. How many of you are aware that $500,000 was spent in the seventies on a short term program to study Frisbee tossing as a legit form of recreation on aircraft carriers. <br>The U.S. had technology to go to Moon and Mars and establish bases there - along with radio and optical telescopes about the time your teenage drivers were born in the early nineties.<br><br>Our priorities need no include manned space travel beyond the extent of necessity, because robotic craft can do so much. Nevertheless Congress considers advanced technology from NASA and Aerospace research as a given. That is B.S. for the U.S. <br><br>Now it is too late - So grab your c-8 - Prepare for a date - when the weather is great - if you can find a dark place in your state. Bring your mate - forget your fate - when the going is lean you must carry your weight. We must be satisfied to know that there is at least a way to enjoy the dark sky we enjoyed from front yards 50 years ago even if it cost $25 in fuel for a short jaunt. <br><br>While the Republican Party drafted Jesus Christ as their poster boy and declared all Democrats are bound for hell, many of us elephant people became disoriented. As the wealth given the upper class did trickle down (to the Chinese). <br><br>Moon Telescope? Yeah - like WHEN????????
"The fact that a liquid-mirror telescope always looks straight up vastly simplifies its construction and reduces mass by eliminating heavy mounts, gearing, and pointing-control systems needed for a steerable telescope. "<br><br>I knew that buying my LXD75 was being just a little too extravagent.
My LXD75 did not work when I got it (gears were not tightenned onto shafts). So if one was depending on electricity for motivation,a mounted scope would simply keep pointing in the same direction. This is like the watch that does not work, yet displays the exact correct time twice every 24 hour period.<br><br>Please help me; I do not know what to do.
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