05-13-2015, 08:08 PM
Great topic and discussion(Hawaiian telescope), worthy of consideration.
Let's do a little math here, if we could?. Maunakea is the absolute best place in the pacific or world to put this 1.4 billion dollar thirty meter telescope. Canada and Japan who claim financial problems can somehow afford the millions to build this scope afar. Answers to questions not even thought of let alone asked yet, will come from this incredible telescope. Yet no military is even the slightest bit interested? Really?
The great U.S. of A. Knew where the Russians were land or sea decades ago by the use of radio observatories. They figured out how to utilize the large mass of the moon to catch, receive, bounce and redirect enough radio pulses to give a soviet location on earth. If we can do this with light who knows the future possibilities, this TMT observatory may also be able to catch the famous and elusive ghost particles traveling around the universe? Military shouldn't be interested or involved in a 1.4 billion dollar project in the great pacific region? Could This TMT telescope have the capability or technologies to be ran or worked from other locations, like neutral canada,Or a large ship in the middle of the pacific?
Concern here.
Maunakea or the TMT Being the eye in the sky for the world may come with added responsibilities, or worse added risks or dangers of becoming a future target to disrupt? If this telescope can peak back in time to the big bang, could it be possible to see the last light given from a plane that crashes in remote areas on earth? Or trace light from fired missiles or underground nuclear tests in north Korea, or Iran? If not then we have not sent enough space junk into space or on the moon yet, jmo.
Let's do a little math here, if we could?. Maunakea is the absolute best place in the pacific or world to put this 1.4 billion dollar thirty meter telescope. Canada and Japan who claim financial problems can somehow afford the millions to build this scope afar. Answers to questions not even thought of let alone asked yet, will come from this incredible telescope. Yet no military is even the slightest bit interested? Really?
The great U.S. of A. Knew where the Russians were land or sea decades ago by the use of radio observatories. They figured out how to utilize the large mass of the moon to catch, receive, bounce and redirect enough radio pulses to give a soviet location on earth. If we can do this with light who knows the future possibilities, this TMT observatory may also be able to catch the famous and elusive ghost particles traveling around the universe? Military shouldn't be interested or involved in a 1.4 billion dollar project in the great pacific region? Could This TMT telescope have the capability or technologies to be ran or worked from other locations, like neutral canada,Or a large ship in the middle of the pacific?
Concern here.
Maunakea or the TMT Being the eye in the sky for the world may come with added responsibilities, or worse added risks or dangers of becoming a future target to disrupt? If this telescope can peak back in time to the big bang, could it be possible to see the last light given from a plane that crashes in remote areas on earth? Or trace light from fired missiles or underground nuclear tests in north Korea, or Iran? If not then we have not sent enough space junk into space or on the moon yet, jmo.