Re: New telescope
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Date: 07/22/04
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 18:28:19 +0000 (UTC)
Ash <ash@echoecho.com> wrote:
> On the CBC last night, there was a story on how a scientist built his
> own telescope in his barn. He used a plastic parabole-shaped lense and
> filled it with mercury. Then, he spun the 6 meter lense at exactly 7
> rpm's and voila, a perfect image. It only cost him $1 million CDN,
> compared to $37 million for the 10 meter lense in Hawaii. One of the
> only downsides, apart for the toxic nature of mercury, is that he can't
> tilt the lense. Still, that's pretty impressive for a home built telescope.
It has been done before, nothing new here.
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