http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/ Engadget Comments for DARPA's Super-Resolution Vision System uses heatwaves to magnify targets http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/Sep 27th 2008 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/Sep 27th 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/Sep 27th 2008 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/Sep 27th 2008 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/Sep 27th 2008 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/
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And besides, they already use gravitational lensing to discover most of what they don't know about.]]>Sep 27th 2008 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/
Yeah, you're right about that product and the size/weight of telescopes. Though we don't know the specifics of this DARPA program, I'm sure they're making something that is designed to be portable and more modular than a permanent installation. It could have technology that might be adapted to telescopes, however; this has happened in the past with the sensitivity of radio telescopes, where military technology _eventually_ trickled down into civilian-based tech. It gets tied up in those classified programs for so long, though.

Gravitational lensing is not a frequently-used observational technique--its use is very specialized. Also, resolution-improving technology would still be useful for ground-based observatories....Orbiting telescopes can produce far better data, but try booking time to use them. Plus you're much more limited in putting up satellites. Consider that Hubble's primary mirror is only 2.4 meters, but the Gran telescope in Spain is 10.4 meters--meaning it has _19_ _times_ the light-gathering ability. And slapping new equipment on orbiting telescopes is not so easy.

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gravitational lensing is not a observational technique in astronomy as it is a physical phenomenon of heavy objects in space that bends the light of objects behind it making them seem brighter, i.e. we can't control what get gravitationally lensed]]>Sep 27th 2008 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/
Gravitational lensing is certainly a physical phenomenon, but I argue that it can also be called an observational technique; an astronomer can use a gravitational lens to gain more information about the background objects. Since it is acting as a lens, background objects may tend to be brighter and larger. Consider that a gravitational lens was used to "discover the most distant known object in the universe as of 2004" (Wikipedia -- Abell 2218). That's an observational technique.]]>Sep 28th 2008 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/Sep 27th 2008 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/Sep 27th 2008 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/Sep 27th 2008 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/Sep 27th 2008 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/Sep 27th 2008 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/Sep 29th 2008 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/Sep 27th 2008 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/
Enough already! Tell the whole world that United States needs only one aid & programm - "Free Coffins for the rest of the world".

We don't need to develop new weapons of killing devices - We need to develop just simple and really working peaceful policy.
Or this will be road to one end - dead end.

Saw debates - mccain is really mad oldman, but obama not better than him on the main problems as Iran and etc.
And guess who's start to tease big russian bear? You know - old american сonservatives from the times of cold war - i thought they died already, but they alive and wants to warm this up again.
Only young politicians who never saw the terror and fears of XX century - can really resolve many world conflicts and problems. We can't fighting with every civilization - nature is the variety of fauna - mankind is the variety of many cultures and races - and we must save them.]]>Sep 27th 2008 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/By saving cultures i mean - stop fighting with them.
Stop the war. Peace for all.
]]>Sep 27th 2008 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/darpas-super-resolution-vision-system-uses-heatwaves-to-magnify/Just curious.
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