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jxcl
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The extremely large telescope will transform astro...
Tom Scott has a great video about why the ELT is already likely the largest telescope that will ever be built
https://youtu.be/QqRREz0iBes?si=tC3Py0W6vqXbZAbq
pennomi
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I didn’t have time to watch yet, but did he take into consideration lunar crater telescopes? I always thought that would be an excellent reason to establish a lunar base.
tetris11
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Is there not a cost towards it being so large that it becomes comically too large to clean?
Synaesthesia
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They mentioned in this article that this mirror is so large that the mirror segments cannot support their own weight.
spacemark
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Ever is a very long time.
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