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The other project that needs to become a reality FAST is the construction of a telescope large enough to measure the spectra of exoplanets. Because once you fi
by ExactoKnight 9y ago
The other project that needs to become a reality FAST is the construction of a telescope large enough to measure the spectra of exoplanets. Because once you find a habitable planet with oxygen in its atmosphere, you now have an irrefutable and pressing case to move fast with Breakthrough Starshot.
Sadly it's going to likely a require 100metre telescope mirror or larger, and current science funding only has a 30metre telescope mirror in the works. The 100 metre telescope was cancelled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope
The answer is at our fingertips, yet the science community can't get the money to build something that would be a fraction of what F-35 fighter jets cost.
What the !@#$ are we doing as a human race...
- moonbug22 9y agoYou know about the SKA, right?
- EthanHeilman 9y agoAt first I thought you were making a joke about the human race prioritizing Ska[0] over new telescopes, but then I realized I wasn't on reddit and saw the "the". What is SKA? Super K? Aperture? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska
- batbomb 9y agosquare kilometer array
- ExactoKnight 9y agoCould the Square Kilometre Array, by measuring in the radio frequency of the electromagnetic spectrum, actually be capable of directly imaging the nearby spectroscopic signatures of exoplanets? I thought you needed to be capable of directly imaging the light of an exoplanet in other wavelengths in order to do that.
- moonbug22 9y agoHere ya go http://skatelescope.org/cradle-life/ http://skatelescope.org/cradle-life/
- notreallythough 9y agopick it up pick it up pick it up