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“The Perfect Machine” by Ronald Florence is the definitive history of Palomar. It’s surprisingly gripping. Remarkably, the 200” was the largest telescope in t
by gammarator 4y ago
“The Perfect Machine” by Ronald Florence is the definitive history of Palomar. It’s surprisingly gripping.
Remarkably, the 200” was the largest telescope in the world for half a century!
- funstuff007 4y agocame here to say the same thing. > Remarkably, the 200” was the largest telescope in the world for half a century! This fact blew my mind. The STEM equivalent of the long jump record. These seems to hold for 30 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_long_jump_world_record_progression#Record_progression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_long_jump_world_record...
- mpweiher 4y agoThe Bob Beamon record from 1968 was an outlier, attributed in part to altitude. If you only count jumps at lower altitude, you get a much more regular/piecemeal progression.
- funstuff007 4y agoMike Powell's was as well.