Bill Gates and Microsoft Fund Telescope 171
coondoggie writes "Bill Gates and the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences this week donated $30 million to an ambitious telescope that researchers say will be able to survey the entire sky every three nights — something never done before.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Project got $20 million from the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences and $10 million from Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates. Expected to see its "first light" in 2014, the 8.4-meter LSST will survey the entire visible sky deeply in multiple colors every week with its 3 billion-pixel digital camera, probing the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy and opening a movie-like window on objects that change or move. With the telescope scientists will be able to quickly find Earth-threatening asteroids and exploding stars called supernovas and will be able to map out 100 billion galaxies, according to researchers."
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Gates Will Discover The Planet Ballmer (Score:0, Funny)
I bet... (Score:4, Funny)
We all know... (Score:0, Funny)
it will only look in the direction it chooses too
Before looking though it, you will have to click ten boxes of "are you sure you want to look in that direction" are you sure you want to see that star", are you sure you want to see that spacecraft heading for earth.." and so forth.
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someone has to say it... (Score:4, Funny)
but if it's a VR simulation... (Score:2, Funny)
They're going to use it to watch . . . (Score:4, Funny)
It looks like you're trying... (Score:5, Funny)
Do you want to
Maybe it will discover the mysteries of (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Earth-Killer (Score:3, Funny)
With all apologies to Roger Waters... (Score:3, Funny)
My God! (Score:3, Funny)
Approve or Deny ? (Score:2, Funny)
Allow or Cancel ?
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