Telectroscope lets Londoners and New Yorkers gaze at one another in real-time
By Darren Murph 
posted May 23rd 2008 11:04AM
posted May 23rd 2008 11:04AM
Don't get too excited -- that image you see to the right isn't actually a transatlantic telescope. Rather, it's a transatlantic broadband network "rounded off on each end with HD cameras." Still, the 11.2- x 3.3-meter Telectroscope is a real marvel to look at, and it actually does enable viewers in New York and London to peer at each other in real-time. The creation will be on display and open to the public around the clock in both cities until June 15th, so if you've been meaning to ask for that dame's hand in marriage but couldn't afford the JFK - LHR ticket, why not set up a surprise meeting at the 'scope?
Why do people always undertake useless projects and the public enjoys such the most... with this attitude of the society humanity isn`t getting anywhere in the near future!
actually these kinda things usually advance societies
@Andrew soz, ;)
I need to work on some prank ideas:
Set up N.Y. back drop in London to confuse New Yorkers.
Set up giant mirror in N.Y. to confuse Londoners.
Project a disaster movie at one end; have people run by screaming.
This thing needs to be open source...
Dang! No web cam version? :)
How are they going to overcome the different frame rates for the HD standard in London vs. NYC???
:-)
Anybody know where the NY end of this is located?
It's down by the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory. Closest stop is probably the York Street F or High Street A.
I think this is just an amazing idea. I think they should put these all around the world in cities; maybe a line of these telescopes. So lets say from New York you would be able to see Tokyo, Paris, London and any other cities.
Word is that it's just a feed to a warehouse in Newark with some people dressed in funny looking clothes.
yea where is this in NYC? (someone said that its around Brooklyn bridge?)
How would one get an analog view?
Only way I can think of is to have two ridiculously large optical telescopes in New York and London, both aimed at the same, enormous mirror in geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic. Didn't they do something like this in Batman & Robin?
I'm certain the scale and precision required would make a transatlantic tunnel a comparatively easier project, but thinking about it makes me smile.
And when I say mirror, I suppose what I mean is more like an orbiting periscope, to mutually reflect and magnify light in two different, non-parallel directions. And I realize that with these "telescopes", one side would focus light from a focal point of 6-10 feet away, and the other would focus light from a focal point of 500 or so miles away. It'd be like looking at a strand of hair through a microscope through a telescope.
Maybe this would be an easier project once we finally get a space elevator out thurr, but when that happens, I think I'd rather go on an elevator ride than play rock paper scissors with a Londoner.
But here's an idea. Picture something like this with one telescope in New York or London, and the other on THE FRICKIN' MOON, with a two-way telescope in the middle somehow. So if you go up to the one on earth and shine a flashlight in it, you can write "CHA" on the moon's surface.
you should definately do that
Cool!
Is this for real? Amazing indeed
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/new-york-to-london-tunnel-opens
Trendhunter says it's REAL! I read it on the internets
woow...that's a greatest technology...im imagine if this giant scope build in Jakarta and can directly to new york...so i don't have use international call to say 'hi' with my cousin...
anyway..may i ask something....
is this telectroscope using fiber optic cable ? or another technlogy...please tell me...
and the second question is, does the technology can directly or maybe can use in mobile phones? because this scope is like an videocall in 3G technology, but the different is, make videocall with 3G need cost...
OK this is cool and all.
But...I can't wait to see the device they make to consumate the marrage! ;-)
"so if you've been meaning to ask for that dame's hand in marriage but couldn't afford the JFK - LHR ticket, why not set up a surprise meeting at the 'scope?"