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Optics, dusty environment.

Genius!]]>May 29th 2007 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/May 29th 2007 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/May 29th 2007 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/May 29th 2007 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/May 29th 2007 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/May 29th 2007 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/
However..if we were to get an atmosphere for the moon, then your point would be valid..]]>May 29th 2007 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/[Armstrong, from the 1969 Technical Debrief - "I first noticed that we were, in fact, disturbing the DUST on the surface when we were something less than 100 feet; we were beginning to get a transparent sheet of moving DUST that obscured visibility a little bit. As we got lower, the visibility continued to decrease. I don't think that the (visual) altitude determination was severely hurt by this blowing DUST; but the thing that was confusing to me was that it was hard to pick out what your lateral and downrange velocities were, because you were seeing a lot of moving DUST that you had to look through to pick up the stationary rocks and base your translational velocity decisions on that. I found that to be quite difficult. I spent more time trying to arrest translational velocity than I thought would be necessary."]

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"Dust is the number one environmental problem on the Moon."
-- Harrison Schmidt, Apollo 17 astronaut

http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2005/04/67110

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"It appears lunar dust does levitate above the Moon's surface because of electrostatic charging."

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/30mar_moonfountains.htm

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etc. etc. etc.
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Super.

Rynth, is that your final answer, or would you like to "phone a friend"?]]>May 29th 2007 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/
Do you frequently make assertions about places based on your never having been to them? Just curious.
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Stop obscuring the issue with electrostatically charged facts!]]>May 29th 2007 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_liquid_mirror_telescope

I guess it's kind of like having Superman's keen sense of vision but being unable to move your neck, head, or eyeballs :-)

@strider_mt2k: LOL sorry about that....
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Rynth: And with that statement, you've just invalidated any previous point you've made. Good job!]]>May 29th 2007 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/
If Hubble cost $4.5B, and this is cheaper than Hubble, then it's safe to say that, even after they find out they got their numbers wrong and need more money, you can still build one for a cool $5B.

Congress just slapped down an extra $100B in additional funds for a war effort, whatever your opinions on it are, above and beyond the normal defense budget.

If we have that kind of tax money to throw around, let's sign up for $100B in telescopes, build 20 of these bastards on the moon, and always have something to look at!

(On a side note, I'm equally interested on what the telescope will see when it faces the earth. Individual hair follicles?)]]>May 29th 2007 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/May 29th 2007 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/
they dont work like that.
think of your binoculars...you can adjust its focus...from closer to farther away...but if someone puts their hand in fron of it...all you would see is a blur...telescopes are much a same.

I've reason of this concept before...it sounds feasable.

Its one more reason to colonize out moon. heres a few: (bigg ass telescope, Helium 3, steping stone to mars and beyond(there is no better proving ground then one thats a mere 3 days away...versus Mars, which is 7 months) the reason for Nasa to set up shop on the moon it getting pretty big]]>May 29th 2007 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/May 29th 2007 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/May 29th 2007 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/May 29th 2007 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/mammoth-liquid-mirror-telescope-could-be-constructed-on-the-moon/
If we don't know how big the universe is then how would we know that the new found objects were the oldest and first stars? Not trying to be a smart ass...promise.

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