Re: [ATM] Re: Mercury Mirror

[Ken Lowther <hermit@outofoptions.org>]

Quoting Daniel Reinders <danreind@shaw.ca>:

> I missed most of these posts on this thread, so I'm not sure if this was
> meant to be ironic or not,

Why is it that no one is willing to take Richard face value?   And if you are
one of those disposed to 'explain' Richard to me as is often the case, don't
bother.

;-)

Hermit


> but just in case there actually is a group here
> in Vancouver that is developing a rather big spinning mercury mirror
> observatory
>
> http://www.govertschilling.nl/artikelen/science/030314_sc.htm
>
> A good solution, if you don't mind only being able to look straight up.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan Reinders
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Schwartz" <richas@earthlink.net>
> To: <artbianconi@blast.net>; <atm@atmlist.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 10:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [ATM] Metallic Mirrors Vol 9, Issue 20
>
>
>> All this spinning stuff...   everybody knows that spinning mercury mirrors
>> can not possibly work; otherwise large observatories would be using them.
>> Also, everybody knows that you can't spin molten glass to form a parabola!
>> Otherwise, it would have been tried by the pioneers of the 1930's.   None
> of
>> that spinning stuff is in any of the books from those times.  Nah.... it
>> can't work.
>>
>> . . . Richard
>>
>
>
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