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Title: Scientists to Search for Earth-Like Planets with World's Largest Telescope
Post by: Buster's Uncle on December 06, 2014, 10:41:35 pm

Scientists to Search for Earth-Like Planets with World's Largest Telescope
Entrepreneur  December 5, 2014 12:03 PM



It's been an exciting week for space exploration. Following news that NASA's Orion spacecraft launch was a success, the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) council announced that plans to build the world's largest telescope -- called the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) -- have been officially approved.

The telescope will be constructed at the top of Cerro Armazones, a mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert, which also home to the Cerro Armazones Observatory. The contracts for the work come to nearly $2.5 million.

The E-ELT is an aperture optical and infrared telescope with a surface of 128 feet (39 meters). ESO Director-General Tim de Zeeuw explained in a statement that the telescope's light-collecting surface will be able to help identify star populations in galaxies that are close to ours and planets that are similar in mass to Earth. 

The plans were approved in 2012, though the building could only begin when 90 percent of the funding came through, according to Space.com. The project is estimated to be completed in 2024, with "phase one" of the construction -- the telescope's main structure and dome -- starting in 2015.


http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-search-earth-planets-worlds-170300521.html (http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-search-earth-planets-worlds-170300521.html)

Title: Re: Scientists to Search for Earth-Like Planets with World's Largest Telescope
Post by: Geo on December 06, 2014, 11:01:54 pm

Quote from: BUncle on December 06, 2014, 10:41:35 pm

The telescope will be constructed at the top of Cerro Armazones, a mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert, which also home to the Cerro Armazones Observatory. The contracts for the work come to nearly $2.5 million.

That can't be right! :o

Title: Re: Scientists to Search for Earth-Like Planets with World's Largest Telescope
Post by: Buster's Uncle on December 06, 2014, 11:02:58 pm

-I thought the same thing.  I believe that's million with a B.

Title: Re: Scientists to Search for Earth-Like Planets with World's Largest Telescope
Post by: Geo on December 06, 2014, 11:49:07 pm

That's about a dollar for every moderately wealthy citizen on this planet.

Title: Re: Scientists to Search for Earth-Like Planets with World's Largest Telescope
Post by: Buster's Uncle on December 06, 2014, 11:56:29 pm

Moderately wealthy being never goes hungry and lives in a building with floors?

Title: Re: Scientists to Search for Earth-Like Planets with World's Largest Telescope
Post by: Geo on December 07, 2014, 10:25:06 am

Quote from: BUncle on December 06, 2014, 11:56:29 pm

Moderately wealthy being never goes hungry and lives in a building with floors?

I'd at least add a roof to the building and the person's financial capability to purchase a car.

Are flats more expensive to live in then houses in the USA?

Title: Re: Scientists to Search for Earth-Like Planets with World's Largest Telescope
Post by: Buster's Uncle on December 07, 2014, 03:05:08 pm

They are everywhere, in the long run, aren't they?

Title: Re: Scientists to Search for Earth-Like Planets with World's Largest Telescope
Post by: Geo on December 07, 2014, 04:44:07 pm

What is everywhere?

Title: Re: Scientists to Search for Earth-Like Planets with World's Largest Telescope
Post by: Buster's Uncle on December 07, 2014, 04:50:25 pm

Renting being poor long-term strategy.

Title: Re: Scientists to Search for Earth-Like Planets with World's Largest Telescope
Post by: Geo on December 07, 2014, 04:51:58 pm

Guess I'm poor then. ;lol

Title: Re: Scientists to Search for Earth-Like Planets with World's Largest Telescope
Post by: Buster's Uncle on December 07, 2014, 04:56:55 pm

Spent it all on travel - you gotta start putting some in savings.

Title: Re: Scientists to Search for Earth-Like Planets with World's Largest Telescope
Post by: Geo on December 07, 2014, 07:52:12 pm

You seem to have forgotten my comment on that article about how much a wrongly-jailed aussie received in damages by his country.

Title: Re: Scientists to Search for Earth-Like Planets with World's Largest Telescope
Post by: Buster's Uncle on December 07, 2014, 08:01:22 pm

Yeah.

I don't know what you're talking about.