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To: Jyotishi
Too bad it's at the bottom of a gravity well under a sea of atmosphere.

/johnny

4 posted on 04/14/2013 8:40:45 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

If we had kept going back to the Moon and established a base we could have put a telescope or three on it.


7 posted on 04/14/2013 8:45:16 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, IÂ’m a conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Too bad it's at the bottom of a gravity well under a sea of atmosphere.

Correcting atmospheric abberations is a difficult but tractable problem.

However given the spatial extent of the TMT multiple laser guidestars will be required......also an established technology.


25 posted on 04/14/2013 9:41:36 PM PDT by Psychotic Break
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