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Tom Scott has a great video about why the ELT is already likely the largest telescope that will ever be built https://youtu.be/QqRREz0iBes?si=tC3Py0W6vqXbZAbq h

by jxcl 3y ago

Tom Scott has a great video about why the ELT is already likely the largest telescope that will ever be built https://youtu.be/QqRREz0iBes?si=tC3Py0W6vqXbZAbq https://youtu.be/QqRREz0iBes?si=tC3Py0W6vqXbZAbq

pennomi 3y ago
I didn’t have time to watch yet, but did he take into consideration lunar crater telescopes? I always thought that would be an excellent reason to establish a lunar base.
- tetris11 3y ago
  Is there not a cost towards it being so large that it becomes comically too large to clean?
  - Synaesthesia 3y ago
    They mentioned in this article that this mirror is so large that the mirror segments cannot support their own weight.
spacemark 3y ago
Ever is a very long time.