[ATM] Re: Banishing the diagonal

[fabio@voreas.com]

You mean like in the good old days in Mt. Palomar and Mt. Wilson? (with the 
exception of carbon fiber) 

GARY FUCHS writes: 

> Art, 
> 
> If we're really serious about banishing the diagonal, I'm 
> thinking we're going to need much, much larger mirrors - so 
> we can sit in the spider...and good insulation/cooling. 
> 
> And a hell of a lot of carbon fiber!  
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> Gary 
> 
> 
> I agree completely. Lazy, half baked yuppies in metropolitan 
> apartments will buy such gimmiks but the dyed-in-the-wool 
> astronomer will follow John Dobson's lead when he said that 
> astronomy was meant for ". . . wet eyes" 
> 
> Art Bianconi 
> 
> George wrote: 
> 
> ". . . the big thing going against the idea is that most 
> people 
> still want to see the real thing with their eyes." 
> 
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