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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Hubble
- Message-ID: <BxvsCE.466@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:12:07 GMT
- References: <2852.2B029F68@catpe.alt.za> <197@newave.newave.mn.org> <BxqL15.DJ2@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Nov16.034202.26234@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Nov16.034202.26234@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
- >#The really interesting space
- >#telescopes are the small ones, not the megaprojects.
- >
- >While small projects certainly have their advantages, it is hard to
- >have sensitive instruments on small packages.
-
- Admittedly, there are things you just can't do without (say) a 5m mirror.
- But I don't think there's much doubt that the science community would have
- been happier with half a dozen 1m mirrors launched in the 1970s than with
- a single very impressive telescope not launched until 1990 and then found
- to have spherical aberration!
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- MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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