Added on Friday 19 March 2010 15:33:20
by SpaceRip
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Fascinating account, led by the famous Dr. J. in this ESOCast, of how technicians remove a giant telescope mirror at the Very Large Telescope Array in Chile and then clean and refinish it.
@casGK That dude that narrates these videos and automatically makes his voice a deeper pitch every time he says something with the "e" sound in it. :P
@ownerfate The VLT uses 4 identical mirrors of that size in a process called interferometry. The telescopes can be combined to view a single object or used separately by different teams of astronomers.
This is awesome stuff. This is what man-kind should concentrate on.
Not building churches and nonsense rituals of religions.
Science is the most important endevour imaginable. Its astonishing that we have all this knowledge and still superstition rule so many lives.
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