Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 12:14:59 UTC No. 16363692

>>16363636
>very large telescope
>overwhelmingly large telescope
Why do the planners of large, expensive instruments always use the gayest names for their shit? Maybe their funding wouldn't get cut after two years of preliminary design work if they made it sound cooler.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 12:33:08 UTC No. 16363705

> I promise we'll find evidence of liquid water please bro
Literally none of them were built with that in mind. Your shitty attempt to copy the particle accelerator thread makes no sense. Try harder.
Also the last generation of telescopes resulted in two Nobel prizes. There is no shortage of discovery.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 12:38:49 UTC No. 16363711

>>16363636
What a waste of money. It's better to spend it on third world aid.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 12:38:53 UTC No. 16363712

>>16363692
scientists brains dont tap into the creativity side.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 12:43:07 UTC No. 16363714

fun fact : for a telescope to be able to see an alien on a planet within 10 light years would have to be 56 miles wide.

just fucking stop NASA. these tiny things are pissing in the wind

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 12:46:24 UTC No. 16363716

>>16363692
Cause it literally doesn't matter what it's called. Only normies care about such bullshit.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 13:04:37 UTC No. 16363727

>>16363636
The telescopes enabled by Starship will make these look like a joke. We're going to image exoplanets in our lifetime. It'll look like a Minecraft texture but still

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 13:05:47 UTC No. 16363730

>>16363727
Correct. I did the glasses picture and pulled something up but it's hard to decipher.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 13:06:40 UTC No. 16363731

>>16363714
Wow that's really small. We need to start making those.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 13:06:48 UTC No. 16363732

>>16363730
I think the essence is there but you could have injected it.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 13:17:34 UTC No. 16363750

>>16363727
And how is that telescope Elon announced years ago with a university? Surely it must be nearly finished.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 13:19:35 UTC No. 16363751

>>16363731
The biggest one is well underway. Some European efficiency.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 13:21:31 UTC No. 16363752

>>16363751
Kewl

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 13:43:53 UTC No. 16363770

>>16363751
OK TO GO

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 13:45:57 UTC No. 16363775

>>16363750
No, that was some professor retard that doesn't understand the Starship architecture. His idea was to waste an entire Starship by shoving a lense in the front and blowing the top off. Retarded. These things will be so fucking cheap that your best bet is to make something that fits and then get in line.
Pic example, launch dozens of 8m mirrors at a time, arrange them, and point them at your detector. You could have a 1km wide telescope for the price of Hubble. People STILL don't understand how insane Starship is.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 13:51:27 UTC No. 16363779

>>16363751
Some more recent ones. The telescope mount is starting to be built up.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 13:55:04 UTC No. 16363782

>>16363775
That's insane

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 13:57:17 UTC No. 16363784

>>16363779
This one shows the cladding is going on the dome quickly. You can also see the access stairs that go around the dome, to get a sense of the insane scale.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 13:57:26 UTC No. 16363785

>>16363782
yeah

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 13:58:25 UTC No. 16363786

>>16363784
Oops.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:01:11 UTC No. 16363790

>>16363775
So is anyone actually working on this or is it just a PowerPoint telescope?

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:13:25 UTC No. 16363802

>>16363790
No one at NASA is behaving as if Falcon 9/Heavy has ever launched, let alone the implications of Starship. The specific constraints of Starship are also not known yet. This is PowerPoint but not sci-fi. You could do this on a reasonable budget and timescale once the vehicle is operational

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:19:28 UTC No. 16363810

>>16363775
heh, that's nothing
Watch THIS

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:21:24 UTC No. 16363811

>>16363786
its running so late by the time its finished it will be obsolete. replaced by the "Humongously Big Telescope"

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:22:25 UTC No. 16363814

>>16363770
Why does everyone assume that any alien civilization we meet will have good intentions?
Anyone trying to directly contact us in any way will most like want something that we have.
Nobody in their right mind would try to give any technology or information to some unknown primitive for the lulz, and risk the chance of them showing up on your doorstep and carpet nuking your homeworld out of nowhere.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:25:37 UTC No. 16363817

>>16363814
hippy faggots like Carl Sagan think advanced lifeforms wouldnt be violent, when evidence all around us shows Nature uses violence as its primary force and has done for billions of years.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:28:56 UTC No. 16363820

>>16363814
well, it was a nice movie.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:32:42 UTC No. 16363828

>>16363814
>want something that we have
Not a chance. There are way too many resources in the universe. Realistically the only reason you'd reach out to a competing species is to destroy them. Give them the blueprints to some tech that makes infinite energy from something the size of a battery and don't tell them that a century after it's adoption when it's fully integrated everywhere, they all blow up at once with the power of several hundred nuclear bombs. Actually building something sent to us by aliens like in that film would be monumentally retarded. It would be more likely to induce solar system wide vacuum decay, a strange matter cascade, or reverse the spin in half the matter on Earth causing an antimatter explosion to the tune of roughly what the sun puts out in 500,000 years
>>16363817
Sagan was a hippy boomer

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:33:50 UTC No. 16363832

>>16363828
you still thinking like a rowdy monkey though.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:37:37 UTC No. 16363838

>>16363817
I blame naive and uninspired shit like Star Trek and the like, where aliens are depicted as "just like us", that makes idiots believe that fee-fees and good intentions are universal.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:38:05 UTC No. 16363839

>>16363692
Still waiting for Big Black Telescope.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:42:56 UTC No. 16363845

>>16363839
13% of telescopes are responsible for over 50% of all intergalactic conflicts.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:43:14 UTC No. 16363847

>>16363832
So far the only intelligent life we're aware of is rowdy monkeys so I'm making a reasonable extrapolation
>>16363838
Cheap makeup has been a disaster for perceptions of interstellar relations

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:45:28 UTC No. 16363853

>>16363847
See? You're already trying to start a fight. Typical simian behavior.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:54:46 UTC No. 16363867

>>16363853
>he can't imagine discussion without conflict
ape indeed

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:57:34 UTC No. 16363872

>>16363828
>Not a chance. There are way too many resources in the universe.
Alien bio matter could be one if they don't want to bother growing some themselves.
There's also cultural reasons like how we kill elephants for Ivory, or make artificial ant colonies. Bug collections are also popular with the kids.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:01:12 UTC No. 16363878

>>16363832
A rowdy monkey is actually much too kind to hope for. Anon assumed that they'll destroy us humanely.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:03:20 UTC No. 16363880

>>16363872
Photons are easier to move than atoms. If that was what they really wanted they could send a probe we couldn't detect, have it collect a bunch of samples remotely, and then beam the info back
>>16363878
No reason to draw it out. It's a simple existential decision. Complexity increases risk

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:11:48 UTC No. 16363893

>>16363880
>If that was what they really wanted
When it comes to cultural reasons, it depends on what they value, I guess. Even for us, there's a difference between shooting stuff in a video game, and going hunting for deer.
A little outing with the whole hive, so they can frolick around and tear gross little creatures apart could do wonders for morale.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:33:11 UTC No. 16363922

>>16363893
I guess it depends on what they're like. If the civilization is millions of years old they could just replicate the Earth biosphere and then frolic through that. If they don't care about waiting 100,000 years for the trip here and back then maybe they'll come to Earth just to fuck shit up. What was this thread about? Oh yeah
>telescopes

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:36:34 UTC No. 16363928

>>16363692
atheists have no vocabulary

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:38:32 UTC No. 16363930

UFO belief is the usual judeo christian narcissism: jews and their gentiles deeply believe they are the center of the universe so when it comes to aliens they deeply believe that the aliens will cross millions of light years to go to earth and then be so in awe in the mighty jews that the aliens can only live in the shadows and lurking from there spending centuries studying the humans which are sooooooooo complex.

LOL

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:40:12 UTC No. 16363933

>>16363930
>this retarded bait will work

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:45:32 UTC No. 16363945

I like how the bot is sperging out again but to insert some commentary in this shitpile the #1 fun fact about telescopes is that they are mathematically predictable, you figure out what you want to see and you can easily figure out the telescope you need to see it and bigger keeps being better basically forever.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:48:03 UTC No. 16363951

>>16363692
Did you not see the bullshit about the name of the James Webb Space Telescope? Easy to avoid that by being simply descriptive.

Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 03:41:58 UTC No. 16365158

Yo mama size telescope

Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 12:47:00 UTC No. 16365780

>>16363636
Unironically yes. We could have thousands of JSWT's in orbit if the funding was there, and using the far side of the moon for the construction of giaint telescopes to cover the EM spectrum should be a priority. Then we could have proper specialized instruments for such tasks.

Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 12:48:31 UTC No. 16365783

>>16363636
>Thirty Meter Telescope
>planned 2022
haha...